Red Sox, the Bolognese taxi driver who unmasks his “no-Pos” colleagues, expelled from his cooperative: “He denigrates us”. Him: “Speechless”

Roberto Mantovani, aka ‘Red Sox’, the Bolognese taxi driver who publishes his daily earnings on social media and denounces colleagues who do not want to be paid with credit cards, has been expelled from the Cotabo cooperative “following disciplinary proceedings” . The decision comes after months of friction, which in December 2023 had […]

Roberto Mantovani, aka ‘Red Sox‘, the taxi driver from Bologna who publishes his own on social media earnings daily and reports colleagues who do not want to be paid with credit cards, he was expelled from the Cotabo cooperative “following disciplinary proceedings”. The decision comes after months of friction, which in December 2023 saw Cotabo suspended for seven days from the Mantovani radio taxi service for “repeated conduct of dissemination of news that does not correspond to the truth, times a harm explicitly the reputation of the cooperative, its administrators and other members”, writes the coop in a note. Added to this is, on the part of the Red Sox themselves, a media campaign aimed, according to Cotabo, at “denigrate the cooperative openly”.

He, on X, comments: “Speechless… [per ora] There is plenty of time to find them, in the appropriate places, together with the whole story of the transparent collections which infuriated colleagues so much. Now in their secret chats they will have passed by insults to the celebrations“. In the past he had found himself with flat tires on his taxi and had letters delivered to him threats. Then he was excluded from the refresher course for volunteer taxi drivers who have a defibrillator on board. In 2021, the writer Carlo Lucarelli had included him in his thriller Leon.

For the Cotabo board of directors “in light of the profound and incurable opposition to the basic principles of the association, demonstrated first and foremost by the partner’s intention to obtain personal advantages to the detriment of the collective interests of the cooperative, by the reiteration of conduct over time and by specific recidivism, which denotes a total lack of awareness and continuing lack of will to comply with regulations regulators of the cooperative, it was deemed not possible to apply a sanction other than exclusion”.