Satbir Gill who runs Hansom Taxis in London Road has confirmed that cab drivers in Leicester have received Islamophobic abuse following the terror bombings in the Manchester Arena on May 22. He said two of his staff have been abused and blamed for that terror attacks while driving around in the city, in road-rage style incidents.
Satbir said a female employee was also targeted while driving wearing a hijab that made her stand out, making her a target of verbal abuses. Satbir told the leicestermercury.co.uk that “taxi drivers are sitting ducks for this kind of thing. They just want to get on with their jobs and lives as they did before but now they are being blamed for something that is absolutely nothing to do with them.” One of the incidents have been reported to the police and the Leicestershire Police is urging people to report hate crimes. Superintendent Shane O'Neill, head of the force's local policing directorate, said to leicestermercury.co.uk "We routinely review all reports of hate crime and have done so recently following the Manchester terrorist attack ... Reassurance patrols have been carried out in specific areas and we will continue to do so."
There were many Muslim taxi drivers, doctors, policemen and members of the public services who had helped out victims during and after the terror attacks.
