The disabled woman who was insulted by an expedited driver speaks: "He told me that my mother should not have had me"

"You shouldn't get on the bus," "your parents are irresponsible, " "people like you shouldn't exist " ... When Catalina Palomar got on the bus, she didn't think she would end up receiving such expletives.

This was neither the first nor the second incident he suffered when boarding a bus. Catalina, who moves on an electric scooter due to a brain injury , is accustomed to disapproving looks and driver abuse. But they had never insulted her and unbelieved her that way.

It was 3:25 p.m. on February 6, when this 24-year-old girl was about to take the 1658 bus from La Veloz, which covers the line from Conde de Casal to Rivas Vaciamadrid.

"I put the ramp in bad ways and refused to place me in the space reserved for people with reduced mobility. When I was standing, it started and I almost fell. People began to complain," explains this young woman in a telephone conversation with EL WORLD.

Catalina put on her helmets with music, but the passengers began to warn her that the driver was insulting her. "He told me that people like me shouldn't exist, that my mother shouldn't have had me and that we are dangerous," she says indignantly. "I started to cry and he let me go that I was a little girl and I didn't have to cry," he says.

The other passengers tried to stop the driver from slowing his behavior , but he turned a deaf ear. What's more, he left the girl on Saramago Street, Pablo Iglesias corner, three stops earlier than he should. The driver alluded to the fact that he could not stop there because there are always many cars parked where the place to go down the ramp is.

Once on land, Catalina has orientation problems and found it difficult to reach her home and three passengers had to accompany her to reach her destination.

The Federation of Associations of People with Physical and Organic Disabilities (FAMMA) has denounced the case before the company Veloz and the Transport Consortium and the driver has been separated from the concessionaire on a precautionary basis .

"We are very concerned about the situation that occurs every day on buses with disabled people. We ask for forceful and disciplinary measures so that this incident does not happen again," says Javier Font, president of the association.

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