translated from Spanish: Lavín released criticism against Uber after allegation of attempted rape

The mayor of Las Condes, Joaquín Lavín, issued a message through his Twitter account in which he added a video, referring to the complaint of a 21-year-old girl, who accuses Uber driver for abusing her and trying to rape her in the early morning from last Saturday. The publication of the edil reads: “Grave. Sexual abuse, attempted rape, 21-year-old Uber driver. I’ve been with her now, fortunately she’s fine. He told me that when he uploaded his story to networks, he got hundreds of messages from people who have lived the same way. Terrible and Uber doesn’t stand up.” The city authority explains in the video: “What worries me is that Uber has to take security measures. As it may be, for example, that she was blocked, when she tried to know what the driver was called… They gave him a patent for the car and that patent, supposedly, there is no… Uber says it doesn’t have the driver’s last name How can you sign up for a platform with the only name?” In the audiovisual record Lavín emphasizes that “Uber has to take the security measures, it has to be empathetic to the victims, it has to help people like this neighbor to put in jail the one who abused and tried to rape her”.The complaintIt should be noted that the complaint of the woman was made known on social networks, where it was reversed, mainly by comments from people who regretted what happened and demanded explanations to the company. The young woman recounted in that publication that the abuse and attempted rape occurred when she had arrived at her home, at which point the subject put the safety to proceed with the crime. “I don’t know how I could let go and hit him (…) I opened the door and ran to the gate of my house, I didn’t know what to do, I was just crying and I called a friend to help me,” read part of the post. The victim of the event commented that he could not directly report what happened on the platform, because the driver first reported it, losing all his data. He finally mentioned: “I made the complaint in Carabineros, who told me that he had received many complaints and that Uber had responded in the same way. I really find it unacceptable that the platform works that way.”

Original source in Spanish