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A TAXI MAN was injured during a carjacking in the early hours of this morning.
At about 1.30am, the 58-year-old driver dropped a passenger at the car park of a shopping centre in Palmerstown. While there, he was threatened and assaulted at knifepoint by a lone male. He was then forced from his vehicle.
The car was driven from the scene in the direction of the N4.
The taxi driver was taken to Ballyfermot garda station where he received medical treatment for his non-life threatening injuries.
During a follow-up operation, a 31-year-old man was arrested. He had been intercepted at a filling station near Maynooth in county Kildare by members of the Regional Support Unit.
He is being questioned at Lucan garda station and investigations are ongoing.
There has been an increase recently of attacks on taxi drivers, leading to calls for new grants to ‘carjack-proof’ vehicles.
President of the Irish Taxi Drivers’ Federation John Usher has also suggested that more extensive use of security cameras in taxis would reduce the number of attacks.
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About time these s.umbags got a long prison sentence
Therein lies the problem. They never do.
24 hrs in Dublin, taxi driver robbed at knifepoint, man shot in housing estate and Dublin footballer stabbed. This town needs an enema.
And new laws and real police
Or. a decent drug replacement programme set up with satellite clinics on every main road into dublin next to a train station. But don’t hold your breath, our politicians react only to NIMBE campaigns – and the best answer to any problem is to delay making a decision in the hope that it will go away.
@ marc. He was caught by the police.
Public flogging and then people get to throw salt at the person who got flogged. ….
I have recently fitted a dash cam vidio camera to my public service vehicle,it’s one smart piece of kit for less than 200 euro at Halfords,it plugs into the cigg lighter and you suction the unit to the windscreen and face it front or rear,with time date and sound recorder,it can be used to record while the car is sitting parked up,handy for identifying unwanted visitors, it can upload to a laptop to keep as evidence if needed, an essential item nowadays I would’nt be without one.
Probably no use if the little pr1ck takes it with him after stealing the taxi
No doubt he’ll see court and then bailed to do it all over again n again n again
Thank you
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