Pas-de-Calais: a bus driver stabbed by a passenger
“A serious event”. Wednesday afternoon a bus driver was stabbed in Avion (Pas-de-Calais). The man in his 40s was stabbed three times while on duty by a passenger, according to information from France Blue.
The incident occurred around 4:30 p.m. The alleged assailant was smoking a joint on board the passing bus. The tone would have risen when the driver of line B3 asked him to turn it off, reports the radio. After stabbing the driver three times, the individual fled. He is still wanted. The victim was transported in serious condition to hospital in Lens. His days are not in danger.
The unions have exercised their right of withdrawal, traffic is therefore suspended on the Tadao network. Only school circuits are maintained.
“We have already had physical attacks, a lot of incivility, we felt that it had been going up for some time. Insults are trivialized, ”says François Doye, Unsa union representative, on France Bleu.