Milan Schoolbus Driver: No Regrets

Below is an article in Il Giornale, which I have translated. It gives an update on how Mr Ousseynou Sy is doing since his arrest. In this report, Sy expresses absolutely no regret for his actions. Now he is sitting in Milan's San Vittore prison enjoying his new-found friends from the Mafia, Camorra, N'drangheta and assorted other lowlifes, who have one redeeming characteristic. They don't care much for those who attack children.


http://www.ilgiornale.it/news/milano/pentito-rifarei-cento-volte-e-tirano-uova-cella-1666970.html

The Senegalese who hijacked a bus with 51 small children on board is not apologizing for what occurred. He forcefully affirmed his gesture and, fact, in front of the magistrates, explained the motives for the attack on the bus. " Repent? No repentance. It was something that I had to do and would do again. One hundred times. Why did I do it? To send a signal to Africa. The Africans must stay in Africa."

Words that weigh and in fact underline how determined the man was in his death plan. As Corriere della Sera reports, the words of Sy are the confirmation of the strategic matrix of of the driver's gesture. He doesn't even fear justice and the long legal process that he will have to face. "That's nothing, I took it into account. I wanted an (impactful) gesture. The world had to talk about me," he confided to his lawyer. What instead seems to lend to a mental infirmity. "In my judgment, he gave serious signs of imbalance, and the manner in which the investigating judge had to carry out the interrogation was aimed out verifying this aspect," said the attorney, Davide Lacchini. " To him, he was not interested in the national reaction, but the impact on an international level that he action could have. He wanted to go to Linate (Milan's airport) alone. Today, as yesterday, he constantly repeated that he didn't want to hurt the children."

But now, in fact, after the attack on the bus the doors of San Vittore prison have already been thrown open for him. There, other inmates have welcomed him with eggs and orange. One throw landed against his cell. The prisoners didn't allow him to close his eyes. He is located in the 5th (corridor), that of protected prisoners, the prisoners who cannot be together with the others. Within the prison code, those who (attack) children have an added penalty that which is (experienced) on a daily basis in relations with other prisoners. The rule doesn't change for Sy who has had to deal with this reality. He is seen in his cell with  a white t-shirt and jeans. Over  a checkered shirt. Slippers on his feet. As reported by Corriere, his clothes, those he wore on the bus were partly burned. The final sign of a day of madness that has left a mark perhaps forever in the lives of 51 small children and their teachers.
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