A taxi driver from Basauri travels to Barcelona to pick up a young man arriving from Malta and take him free to Astrabudua
The 20-year-old Gorka Pérez, a student of a Higher Degree in Economics and Finance, was able to hug his family yesterday afternoon after three months in Malta and thanks to the disinterested gesture of a taxi driver from Basauri.
The driver did not hesitate to respond to the call for help that his parents launched a few days ago over the airwaves.
The coronavirus pandemic surprised him from Erasmus almost 3,000 kilometers from his home and the repatriation was more complicated than desirable. On May 27, he should have returned home, but the trip was complicated and he could not fly with the 61 Biscayan people who were also part of the Biscayan expedition.
Faced with this situation, his father managed two other flights for the following days, but there was no luck and with the air traffic paralyzed, they were canceled.
A few days ago, he finally got a ticket with a stopover in Frankfurt, but the flight arrived at the Barcelona El Prat Airport.
Due to the state of alarm, the trip from Barcelona to Astrabudua was complicated, so the father called the Basque Government, the Ertzaintza and the Civil Guard, to find out if he could pick up his son in Barcelona, but everything was you hit.
Not knowing what else to do about the situation, he called the radio program ‘Jon Gómez’s early riser on Radio Nervión’ to tell about his case and the impossibility of his son returning.
Iñaki Sánchez, Basauri’s 15th taxi license, surprised the audience and announced that he was offering to go to Barcelona without charging. It only required travel expenses that have amounted to 300 euros.
Someone called the Mossos
Unfortunately, Iñaki had to face an incident when he arrived at the airport, as someone realized that he was from another place and called the Mossos d’Esquadra.
“They asked me for my papers and told me that I had skipped confinement, but I showed them that no, I had all the papers in order and when I was working I could circulate anywhere in Spain,” said Iñaki.
His gesture has also carried with it a wave of generosity. “A lady the other day said nothing and put me 20 euros through the window and another man has given me another 50 euros to help with the travel expenses,” he recalled.
Several taxi drivers from Barcelona that we have interviewed at the airport have criticized the action of the person who called the Mossos by phone, “The unscrupulous person who did it would be better off worrying about cockroaches (Cabify), instead of attacking the Basque solidarity taxi drivers that they are our companions ”, has pointed out a regular at the airport.
A taxi driver from Basauri travels to Barcelona to pick up a young man and take him free
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