The user recounted moments of fear due to the subject’s attitude.
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In the last few hours, a resident of the town of Suba recounted how she had to jump from a moving car after the driver of an Uber deviated from the indicated route, in an alleged case of sexual harassment. According to Zulay Riascos, the man justified the detour by claiming that he would show him a shortcut, which generated his distrust.
Through a conversation with the victim on the station Blu RadioThe woman said that everything happened after a meeting with friends, after which she requested an Uber to return home. But during the trip, the driver took a different route than the one indicated by the application, which led to an argument.
Despite her requests to stop the vehicle, the subject would not have agreed, forcing her to make the drastic decision of removing her seat belt and jumping out of the moving car to escape.
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After the incident, Riascos requested the assistance of the Police, who informed him that they could not proceed with the capture of the driver of the Renault Logan with DTR 735 plates, since there was no flagrante delicto. When he went to the La Granja URI, the security personnel told him that they only received special cases between the hours of 6:00 am and 6:00 pm.
The victim added that the following morning, she tried to report the incident through the Uber platform, but found her account blocked. After leaving several comments about the case since Sunday, June 23, her account was reactivated on Wednesday morning, June 26.
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The company, for its part, reported that they contacted the user to offer her the insurance coverage available for all trips made through the application, which covers personal accidents and civil liability. In addition, as a preventive measure, they disabled the driver’s account while the corresponding investigation is carried out.
Figures of harassment of women in Bogotá:
According to the District Secretariat for Security, Coexistence and Justice, in Bogotá, 8 out of 10 women reported having been victims of street harassment in March, and 64% reported feeling some type of harassment on public transport.
Additionally, in 2023, 419,524 women reported having suffered some type of sexual violence on public transport in the last year.
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