Unions call for greater safety for drivers, but warn against changing routes in neighborhoods. “We cannot create ghettos in Lisbon”

After another night of riots, which resulted in the hospitalization of a Carris Metropolitana driver, who was injured in Loures, the unions that represent the drivers of transport companies in Greater Lisbon are calling for better safety conditions for workers, and argue that the neighborhoods cannot be “left abandoned”. for transport services.

The driver, aged around 40, was traveling on a bus belonging to a company linked to Carris Metropolitana. This morning, he was passing through the Cidade Nova neighborhood, in Loures, when he ended up being hit by several ‘Molotov cocktails’ thrown by a group of people who protested against the death of Odair Moniz by a Public Security Police (PSP) agent. The bus was consumed by flames, with the man, according to Expresso, suffering serious burns to his face and upper limbs.