"Why did someone with such a history drive a bus for transporting children?"
(by Francesca Proietti Cosimi) As soon as the news reached the Viminale, Matteo Salvini immediately set to work to "see clearly". Because, what happened this morning on the provincial road 415 that connects Pantigliate to San Donato Milanese, in the province of Milan, is incredible. A Senegalese with a history of driving under the influence of alcohol and sexual violence, hijacked the vehicle, on which 51 children and several teachers were traveling, and finally set it on fire, threatening to take his own life. “Such a gesture cannot be justified”.
An 47enne of Senegalese origin, Ousseynou Sy, was arrested after kidnapping and setting fire to a student bus. It happened in San Donato (Milan). The man, Italian since 2004 e with precedents for drunk driving and sexual violence, he had threatened to kill himself: "Deaths in the Mediterranean must be stopped". Pm: "He admitted premeditation". Some kids were slightly intoxicated. The aggravating circumstance of terrorism has been contested.
"No one will be saved“, Said Ousseynou Sy shortly after hijacking the vehicle and headed for Linate airport. This was reported by the provincial commander of the Carabinieri Luca De Marchis. As soon as the military blocked the vehicle, the man got off the bus with a lighter in his hand and set the vehicle on fire, while the carabinieri saved the boys from the rear, who said they were handcuffed and threatened, after breaking the windows.
"He wanted to go to Linate" - "He wanted to get to the Linate runway, he was angry with the government for policies on migrants". This was stated by one of the teachers who was with the boys and who is now with them at the comprehensive Margherita Hack institute in San Donato.
The alarm raised by a little boy on board - One of the kids on board gave the alarm and triggered the intervention of the carabinieri. According to what has been reconstructed so far, the 47-year-old was driving the bus that was supposed to take the kids back to school after an outdoor sport activity. At a certain point the man would have changed his path and, turning to the students with a knife in his hand, he would have said: “Let's go to Linate, nobody gets off here”. One of the students on board, however, called the parents on their mobile phones who, in turn, alerted the carabinieri.