Juan Francisco Dorta, taxi driver from Granadilla de Abona For 20 years, last Sunday, he starred in an action at the height of the best tourist promotion campaigns on the island. At 4 o’clock in the afternoon, when he was getting ready to pick up two clients at the airport terminal, noticed the presence of an apparently ownerless backpack.
“I asked the boys if it was theirs and they said no, so I went to a group of seven people who were in the area and who were about to get into a colleague’s taxi and they also told me that it was not theirs. . So I took it and put it in the car under some armchairs, so that it would not stay there and someone would take it, “he explained yesterday to DIARIO DE AVISOS.
Juanfran, as his 46-year-old colleagues know him, made several races that afternoon to Playa de Las Américas and forgot the denim gray bag that he carried under a seat. Until the next day he went to have breakfast at a bar in San Isidro and met his companions. “They were commenting that a backpack had disappeared at the airport with a lot of money and some writing papers. So I told them: ‘I have that backpack.’ I went to the car, took it, reached in and took out I don’t know how many 100 euro bills. An exaggerated thing. My face changed. I flew out for the Civil Guard, and when I arrived they were already searching and about to check the airport cameras ”.
Once in the premises of the Armed Institute, the agents verified that inside the bag there were 10,380 euros, distributed in bills of 100, 50, 20 and 5, in addition to a women’s wallet with documentation and the deed of a property. Asked about the owner of the backpack, the taxi driver confirmed that he is “an 81-year-old German cardiologist who seems to have come to buy a house.”
He blamed the mistake on the fact that “he probably left his bag on the ground to get a piece of paper or explain the hotel address to the taxi driver and forgot to pick it up.” His action, so far, has not been rewarded with a bonus. “Nothing has come to me,” he says.
