A tram driver in Prague attacked passengers from Ukraine

Prague. The case of a tram driver, who verbally and physically attacked Ukrainian passengers and threw them out of the vehicle, wants to deal with the Prague Transport Company (DPP) Mayor Bohuslav Svoboda (ODS) and Deputy for transport Zdeněk Hřib (pirates).

The mayor expects the transport company to investigate the situation thoroughly and draw clear consequences.

The video also dealt with the police on Thursday is also dealt with by the police. It will determine the circumstances of the incident and then decide on legal qualifications, she said.

The tram driver on the number seven shouts at the video at a pair of Ukrainian passengers with a small child who, according to his father, stood on the seat while driving. The driver grossly calls for them to get out of the vehicle and shouts, among other things, « You have no right to be here in this country. »

The passenger also gets to the hand, and it is not clear from the shot whether he has hit it.

Mayor Svoboda described the video as appalling. « Seeing an employee of a transport company, as he throws a passenger from a vehicle with xenophobic statements and then physically attacks him, is shocking itself.

According to him, he does not have similar behavior not only in public transport, but also to a decent society. « I expect the transport company to investigate the situation thoroughly and draw clear consequences. Public transport must be safe and available to everyone, regardless of nationality or origin, » Svoboda added.

The incident is also dealt with by the Deputy for Hřib transport. « Whatever the situation preceded, such action is absolutely unacceptable. Especially before a small child, » he said.

He added that he is dealing with the situation together with DPP, including the fastest as possible to draw employment steps.

This was confirmed by DPP spokeswoman Aneta Řehková. « We know about the video, we are dealing with the case intensively and we are dealing with it. According to her, the company can only know about the next opinion.

The case has also been dealt with in the morning by the Prague police, which ascetains the circumstances of the case to decide on the legal qualification of the act.

« At this point, we are in favor of being an offense against civil coexistence, » the police said on the X Network.

The video of the child's father later commented on the video, which was spread on social networks since Thursday, February 27. The attacked man was, according to the news server, the grandfather of a child who accompanied his grandson with his wife.

« My parents carried the child home and the driver did not like standing with his feet on the seat and looking out the window, although the father showed that the shoes are clean and immediately took the baby's hand, » the boy's father noted for the web Vinegrate.czwhich focuses on information for Ukrainians in the Czech Republic. He added that the family has not yet filed a complaint with the police, but plans to do so today.