For the first time, however, the police used serious violence on the striking workers. One taxi driver was hit on his head with a police baton and transported from the scene unconscious in an ambulance. His condition was later reported as stabile. Even SAC s bare-footed ombudsman Shahrokh Razavi, who has repeatedly appeared in the TV news the last few days, was attacked and injured. On Monday the 13th of March, SAC-Syndikalisterna filed a complaint with JO, the Ministry of Justice s Ombudsman, with reason of the police reaction in this legal conflict.
Additional complaints are to be filed after today s occurrences.
Nothing they did helped traffic congestion. Our one-hour blockade was to last until 9 o clock and there was no way the police could have towed away all the taxis participating during that time frame. Today s strike was combined with a blockade in which fifty taxis participated. During the time in which the legal action took place, between 8 and 9 am, the exit ramps from the airport to the motor way were blocked. Shahrokh Razavi, speaking from the hospital where he was being treated, said, with a certain irony in his voice, that it was the police reaction that made the blockade a complete success.