A woman was left shaken after an incident in Dublin city centre on Thursday night saw her allegedly 'thrown against a taxi' by two men after she filmed them blocking an ambulance in the city centre.
The woman, who did not want to be named, told Dublin Live that she was out for dinner late on Thursday night and was walking down to get a taxi via Temple Bar to the quays. She said: "There was an ambulance in the lane at Fitzsimon's with its lights on trying to get onto the quays I presume to go to hospital.
"A man was blocking the ambulance in the laneway, the ambulance tried to get him to move to move but he wouldn't move. I decided to record it in case it was needed by the National Ambulance Service or the guards, another man next to me decided to do the same."
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In footage seen by Dublin Live, one man is standing and appears to be blocking the ambulance in the laneway, which has its blue lights on. Later in the video, a second man approaches the woman who is filming the footage and demands to know what she is doing.
The woman who filmed the footage claimed that the friend of the man blocking the ambulance approached them and grabbed another witness's phone out of his hand next to and deleted the video. She said: "Then he came for my phone I said don't touch me or my property, I put my phone in my jacket pocket and I walked onto the quay."
The woman then walked onto the quay and hailed a passing taxi. She explained: "I hailed a taxi then what happened was the guy caught me from behind and threw me against the taxi. He started screaming and roaring in my face to give him my phone.
"I didn't know what was happening, I was a little bit in shock. I turned around and I pushed him back, I said 'get away from me' and then another guy came up and was like you need to leave her alone and pulled the man off me.
"Then basically the guy who was holding the ambulance back, he then came over and started screaming in my face.
"While that was happening the other guy who tried to take my phone he said to the taxi driver she's with us, you need to leave everything is okay. So he was trying to get the taxi to leave so I would be stuck on my own with these two men and the man who helped me, but I had already talked to the taxi man so he had the cop on not to leave me with them.
"They kept screaming in my face and when I said I was going to call the guards, the second I said it I was going to call the guards the two of them sprinted down the quays. I have lived in Dublin eight or nine years and I have never, ever experienced anything like that in my entire life.
"I was just shocked how they treated us and I've reported it to the guards."
Dublin Live has contacted An Garda Siochana for comment.
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