New attack on a tram driver in Grenoble, the perpetrator on the run

A public transport network agent was attacked during the night from Thursday to Friday in Grenoble, sprayed with tear gas, according to the unions. The author fled. This attack comes a few days after a controller was threatened with a gun in Échirolles.

A tram driver in his thirties was attacked at the Alsace-Lorraine stop, in downtown Grenoble, on the night of Thursday November 7 to Friday November 8. The line B tram was stopped when an individual sprayed the victim with a product “slightly orange on the face through the open window”according to police. According to the unions, it was tear gas.

The driver was transported to Grenoble-Alpes University Hospital for eye pain. Due to a lack of witnesses, the attacker was not identified and fled. The victim left the hospital in the middle of the night, says the CSSCT secretary of the FO union of M Réso, Georges Garcia, lamenting “an incivility like many others”.

The union initiated a serious and imminent danger procedure in order to be received by the management of M Réso. “We receive around 1,350 reports per year linked to incivility on the network, including 530 for attacks on people, whether verbal or physical attacks”relates Mr. Garcia, who asks for “return of prevention agents” on the lines, especially at night.

This attack comes a few days after an agent was threatened with a gun this Tuesday during a check in the town of Échirolles, in Isère. Most agents of the public transport network had exercised their right of withdrawal, bringing bus and tram traffic almost to a standstill for two days.

A call to the “general strike” must be launched in December among M Réso agents to demand in particular the establishment of a transport security brigade and police reinforcements.

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