The Adomari Bus company has reported to the Civil Guard a crime of damage to four of its vehicles, which were found last Saturday with broken windows and punctured tires. In its complaint, it suggests that the perpetrators could be workers from Lanzarote Bus, who have been on strike since December 2.
In this regard, the company representative assures that one of its employees had already received "threats", urging him to stop covering services for the Lanzarote Bus group during the strike. Specifically, Adomari Bus has taken over the collection of Club La Santa staff since last week, which is one of the services affected by the strike.
As a result, he claims that his employee received messages and audios on his phone on December 8, warning him that if they did not stop doing that work, “there would be consequences”. “Go buy windows”, he says they told him in one of those messages.
The next day, according to the complaint, this same driver met five Lanzarote Bus workers in Puerto del Carmen, who “threatened to break the windows of the vehicle and slash the tires”.
In this regard, the representative of Adomari Bus added in statements to La Voz that the incident occurred at 7 in the morning, while the worker was performing that service for Club La Santa, at the first stop in Puerto del Carmen. There, he claims that there was “a picket line” with those five workers from the other company. “They opened the gate of the rear door of the bus, where the engine is, and broke a belt, in addition to continuing to threaten to break the windows and slash the tires”, he says.
In addition to the driver, he claims that a hotel worker, who had already boarded the bus at that stop, witnessed this episode.
“The pickets have to be made at the Lanzarote Bus buses, not at the other companies. I don't understand why they are going after the other companies”, questions the head of Adomari, who now hopes that responsibilities will be determined. And he considers that those threats are directly related to what ended up happening the next day, on Friday night to Saturday.
According to the complaint, the company's four buses were parked at the SLP gas station located on the LZ-40 road towards Puerto del Carmen, and when a worker arrived at 6:30 in the morning on Saturday, he found the damage. “Someone had broken the windows of the four vehicles”, giving “more than ten hammer blows” to each of them, in addition to puncturing “four tires”, he told La Voz.
He claims that another company has also suffered attacks
The representative of Adomari Bus has also stated that his is not the only company affected, and that there is also another one that had the windows of two vehicles broken.
Regarding his case, he states that the damage to four buses has meant that his activity “has been paralyzed”, since they do not have more vehicles. In addition, he emphasizes that it will take time to recover it, given the difficulty in finding replacement windows for the buses, which he also assures can cost “more than 2,000 euros”.
Meanwhile, in addition to the complaint filed with the Civil Guard, the representative of Adomari Bus states that he is in contact with his lawyer to see what legal measures to take, either against “the drivers who made the threats” or, as an alternative, against “the organizing union itself” of the strike, which is Intersindical Canaria.
