School Bus set on Fire in Milan

Zorya · 20-03-2019 06:18PM #1

With children in it.

What the actual feck?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47642298

The driver had been taking two classes of teenagers and their adult escort from a school in Vailati di Crema to a gym but took a different route on a provincial highway apparently heading for Milan's Linate airport, local reports said.

The ordeal then unfolded over the next 40 minutes.

Witnesses said that when he began addressing the passengers with a knife, a boy phoned a parent, who alerted the police.

It took some time before police tried to intercept the bus. The vehicle rammed into police cars before slowing down.

Italian reports said the driver had sprinkled petrol around the bus but police were able to smash the rear windows and let the passengers off before it burst into flames.

Milan prosecutors said they were investigating all possible motives including terrorism.

TheValeyard · 20-03-2019 06:20PM

Looks like serious tragedy was averted!

Zorya · 20-03-2019 06:23PM

Murray TheDemonic TalkingSkull wrote: »

Looks like serious tragedy was averted!

Yeah, I am watching some videos of it, the guy went nuts, ramming police cars, and then scattering petrol all inside bus. One child had texted parents that he was going mad and that's how the police got there in time.
Madness.

TheValeyard · 20-03-2019 06:25PM

Zorya wrote: »

Yeah, I am watching some videos of it, the guy went nuts, ramming police cars, and then scattering petrol all inside bus. One child had texted parents that he was going mad and that's how the police got there in time.
Madness.

Potential Speed 3 successor?

Just glad no one was seriously hurt or killed.

Zorya · 20-03-2019 06:31PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HUk0km0H8k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf50IdczUS4

Don't know if they will embed

LessOutragePlz · 20-03-2019 06:52PM

A man hijacked a school bus with 51 students aboard before setting the vehicle ablaze in an apparent protest over Italy's migration policy, police said.

Police spokesman Marco Palmieri said the driver — a Senegalese, 47, with Italian citizenship — told officers after he was arrested: “Stop the deaths at sea, I'll carry out a massacre."

One of the children told reporters at the scene the driver had threatened to pour petrol on them and set them alight. One of them managed to call the police who rushed to the scene and were able to rescue the children.

A girl interviewed by Ansa said the man kept repeating that "people in Africa are dying and that it was the fault of Di Maio and Salvini".

https://www.euronews.com/2019/03/20/man-hijacks-italy-school-bus-and-sets-it-ablaze-in-migration-protest

What the feck is going here if you're unhappy about something this is not the right way to go about it. This situation could have been a lot worse.

BeerWolf · 20-03-2019 06:58PM

Amazing mental gymnastics "logic" by a twisted evil ****er.

suicide_circus · 20-03-2019 07:07PM

#gratitude

Sinus pain · 20-03-2019 07:14PM

How lucky were they that boy text his mother!

Sinus pain · 20-03-2019 07:16PM

Double post

Das Reich · 20-03-2019 08:18PM

How this is not being commented and shared l immagine if it was the other way around they would talk about it for a week.

4068ac1elhodqr · 20-03-2019 08:25PM

Currently the BBC news site have it as a '3rd rate, sideline news story', despite it being their 2nd most read news story.
Oh, and they forgot to mention he (the school bus driver), has prior precedents for both drunk driving and sexual abuse, of a minor.

Stephen15 · 20-03-2019 08:28PM

You could be damn sure that if Salvini was in government back in 2004 this man would not be in Italy let alone a citizen.

LessOutragePlz · 20-03-2019 08:37PM

Accumulator wrote: »

Currently the BBC news site have it as a '3rd rate, sideline news story', despite it being their 2nd most read news story.
Oh, and they forgot to mention he (the school bus driver), has prior precedents for both drunk driving and sexual abuse, of a minor.

Yeah the mainstream media only tell us the news that they want us to know to try portray a certain narrative to us. It's usually best to get your news from independent media outlets and trying to read a story from multiple sources if that's possible.

LessOutragePlz · 20-03-2019 08:38PM

Das Reich wrote: »

How this is not being commented and shared l immagine if ut was the other way around they would talk about it for a week.

Because it doesn't fit the narrative that the majority of the mainstream media is pushing so it's ignored by most of them.

LessOutragePlz · 20-03-2019 08:39PM

Stephen15 wrote: »

You could be damn sure that if Salvini was in government back in 2004 this man would not be in Italy let alone a citizen.

Sorry to say that this problem is only going to get worse in the future.

TheValeyard · 20-03-2019 08:40PM

Sinus pain wrote: »

How lucky were they that boy text his mother!

Yeah, could have turned out much worse.

JupiterKid · 20-03-2019 08:47PM

What the hell is happening with the world?

Its like a rollercoaster ride to oblivion and I just wanna get off now.

Wibbs · 20-03-2019 08:53PM

Jesus.

Thank god none of the kids were hurt. My immediate instinct would be to string that bastard up from the nearest lamppost. :mad:

theguzman · 20-03-2019 09:29PM

Wibbs wrote: »

Jesus. Thank god none of the kids were hurt. My immediate instinct would be to string that bastard up from the nearest lamppost. :mad:

But But But Human Rights and Amnesty International.

yosser hughes · 20-03-2019 10:01PM

This story hasn't been given much prominence in the main Irish newspapers. I had to dig a bit to find them.
This was very,very close thing.

https://www.independent.ie/world-news/driver-abducts-schoolchildren-and-sets-bus-ablaze-in-migrant-deaths-protest-37934338.html

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/driver-abducts-schoolchildren-and-sets-bus-on-fire-in-italy-1.3832971

BBFAN · 20-03-2019 10:09PM

The article says the driver was known to be angry about Italy's migrant policy??

Why the hell was he driving a school bus so???

It's all very well people saying they knew these things after the fact, why didn't they do anything beforehand?

Vic_08 · 20-03-2019 10:53PM

Erin Aggressive Supermarket wrote: »

Currently the BBC news site have it as a '3rd rate, sideline news story', despite it being their 2nd most read news story.
Oh, and they forgot to mention he (the school bus driver), has prior precedents for both drunk driving and sexual abuse, of a minor.

It's the 3rd story listed on their news homepage after Brexit and hundreds dead in Mozambique, considering nobody was seriously injured in this attack I think that is an appropriate level of prominence, even bordering on giving it too much.

The prominence given to Brexit and their bickering idiot politicians every bloody day for the last 2 years on the other hand...

4068ac1elhodqr · 20-03-2019 11:03PM

Vic_08 wrote: »

It's the 3rd story listed on their news homepage after Brexit and hundreds dead in Mozambique, considering nobody was seriously injured in this attack I think that is an appropriate level of prominence, even bordering on giving it too much.

The prominence given to Brexit and their bickering idiot politicians every bloody day for the last 2 years on the other hand...

8hrs later and https://www.bbc.co.uk/news shows it listed on the sidelines (third level of visual hierarchy), just below 'lotto win will change me' story.

While at the same time being the 3rd most read newstory, it's the same place it was, when the 2nd most read earlier today at 2/3pm.

Zorya · 20-03-2019 11:07PM

Had to go to work so couldn't follow up story but I see now at BBC link in OP that they added a last paragraph all about nasty right wing govt and their policies. Almost as if trying to justify why someone would do this. The guy tied up kids, took their phones, had petrol, said he had planned it and so on. I read it was one kid who opened a back door that let them out. How can the BBC tack on any hint of justification for what could have been a dreadful event. Very odd.

Auntie Semite · 20-03-2019 11:08PM

Senegalese driver, angry about Italys migrant policy ....diversity is our strength.

But..but sure Italy have always had problems with Italian bus drivers trying to burn 51 children to death whats the difference right?

The Rape of Lucretia · 20-03-2019 11:10PM

Wibbs wrote: »

My immediate instinct would be to string that bastard up from the nearest lamppost. :mad:

You sound like a Lega Nord kinda guy ! A bit too foreign probably, but your heart is in the right place.
Sign up here : https://www.leganord.org/aderisci/iscriviti-tesseramento

ohnonotgmail · 20-03-2019 11:11PM

Erin Aggressive Supermarket wrote: »

8hrs later and https://www.bbc.co.uk/news shows it listed on the sidelines (third level of visual hierarchy), just below 'lotto win will change me' story.

While at the same time being the 3rd most read newstory, it's the same place it was, when the 2nd most read earlier today at 2/3pm.

it is on the front page of bbc.com

Grid. · 20-03-2019 11:48PM

Shocking.....what the hell is wrong with people!!:rolleyes:

Stephen15 · 20-03-2019 11:58PM

BBFAN wrote: »

The article says the driver was known to be angry about Italy's migrant policy??

Why the hell was he driving a school bus so???

It's all very well people saying they knew these things after the fact, why didn't they do anything beforehand?

Some of the articles mentioned he hijacked the bus which suggests he wasn't the person who was actually supposed to be driving it at least that's what it would lead you to believe.

Wibbs · 21-03-2019 12:02AM

The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »

You sound like a Lega Nord kinda guy ! A bit too foreign probably, but your heart is in the right place.
Sign up here : https://www.leganord.org/aderisci/iscriviti-tesseramento

Note I said "immediate instinct".

School Bus set on Fire in Milan

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