Harassment, attempted kidnapping, sexual assault… various facts concerning VTC follow one another dangerously.
And the women who use this service are obviously the first victims.
So if many of them avoid taking public transport for fear of being attacked, they are not more reassured in taxi or VTC cars.
“It is up to the driver to show that he is there to transport in complete safety”
“The driver began to ask me somewhat intimate and inappropriate questions;
Suddenly, when I recognized the district where a friend lived, I asked to stop the race”, thus testifies a user;
"I'm always careful because it's essential when you're a girl, so I always look carefully at the plate of the vehicle," confirms another.
Himself a VTC driver, Sofiane has already noticed that customers were frightened in his car: "In this situation, it is up to the driver to show that he is professional and that he is really there to drop off the person from point A to point B, in complete safety”, he explains.
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