This is a matter that puts the RATP (Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens, editor’s note) in an embarrassment. A bus driver filmed himself on Saturday September 9, 2023, as part of his work. He subsequently posted the video on social media. The problem ? He made insulting remarks towards a passenger he was transporting, as reported BFMTV on Wednesday September 13, 2023. He even threatened to rape her, in an unprecedented excess of verbal violence. The extract from the video in which the RATP machinist threatens to rape a woman was probably published on X, the new name of Twitter, and would have quickly gone around the Internet. The 46-second video is said to be a montage of two videos of the individual according to BFMTV. This publication immediately alerted Internet users. They then identified the accounts of RATP and its CEO, Jean Castex, summoning them to intervene in the face of this violence carried out by one of their employees. The man explains that the woman present did not want to get out of the bus while it had arrived at its terminus, assures the report of BFMTV.
The individual had already been summoned by his superiors
The Ile-de-France transport network organization indicated “condemn with the greatest firmness“these actions to our colleagues in BFMTV. The RATP also denounces “absolutely intolerable words and behavior” held by their collaborator in his video. The public establishment also ensures BFMTV that the individual in question “is the subject of disciplinary proceedings“. The man had, in fact, already been summoned by his superiors after the publication of another video, in which he also made outrageous comments of a sexist nature. At the beginning of September 2023, the machinist allegedly boasted of the presence of women on bus line 177, in which he works as a driver. These misogynistic outings also sparked numerous reactions on social networks, especially on X.