Milano, 21 mar – Ousseynou Sy, the Senegalese who wanted to set fire to a bus full of children for avenge deaths at sea, he had planned his infernal plan in every detail. He had bought two jerrycans with 10 liters of petrol and some electrician's cable ties to tie up the victims. He had also published on Youtube a video to say enough to the too many shipwrecks in the Mediterranean. “I can no longer bear to see children being eaten by sharks and pregnant women drowning”, can be heard in the delirious message. For the terrorist 47 before, father of two daughters, became an Italian citizen in 2004 after marrying a girl from Crema from whom he then separated, “Africa had to get back on its feet” and its compatriots no longer had to leave for Europe, to be punished for his “criminal migration policies”.
The murderous plan
That's why he decided to hijack the school bus he was accompanying 51 students, two teachers and a janitor, from the gym to the Vailati middle school in Crema and tried to reach Linate, where from”he wanted to take a plane back to Senegal“, explained the head of the anti-terrorism pool Alberto Nobili and the prosecutor Luca Poniz who interrogated Sy for a couple of hours in the evening.
These are the charges against him: massacre, kidnapping with the aggravating circumstance of terrorism, not because Sy, who "is a maverick", has joined ISIS or other jihadist organizations, but for "the extent of his gesture". The autistic, who according to the boys' stories was armed with a knife and also a gun (not found yet), he doused the seats and overhead bins with petrol and then headed towards Milan.
“If the police hadn't intervened, no one would have been hurt.", is the absurd justification of the 47 year old, That has precedents behind it of the 2004 and of 2006 for driving while intoxicated and was finally convicted in 2018 to one year for sexual assault. The police who intervened to block the school bus, Instead, they spoke of a situation that could have degenerated at any moment. “If the children, the two teachers and the janitor are safe, we owe it to the courage and organization of the force and the staff of the San Donato Milanese station", said Milan prosecutor Francesco Greco.
The little hero
“The police carried out an operation that we see in films with special teams – he added – they managed to block the bus and decided to intervene” before there was a massacre. A student asked for help, who managed to free himself from the cable ties with which the teachers, by order of Sy, they had pinned his wrists and ankles to the bus seats. The children in the rows closest to the driver had been tied up tightly, while those at the bottom less so. And exactly one of them took his cell phone and alerted his parents, who in turn notified the police. The search for the hijacked vehicle began immediately: the school bus was spotted not far from San Donato. The autistic rammed several police cars, he skidded for a hundred meters proceeding in a zigzag along the Paullese and then hit a car with a four-year-old child on board and practically stopped against the concrete barriers.
At that point, the police intervened: while two carabinieri approached his window and spoke to him, the other carabinieri went to the back of the bus and broke the windows with their truncheons. To which, while the police helped everyone out, the Senegalese started the fire with the lighter he was holding. “The flames broke out while some children were still inside”, the police confirm. In those moments of great excitement the Senegalese decides to get off the bus, he is stopped - he has burns on his hands - and says he did it "for the dead in the Mediterranean".
A massacre prevented almost by a miracle, Therefore: 12 children and two adults were taken to hospital for abrasions and the onset of intoxication, all the others are taken to a nearby gym where they are joined by their parents.
Ludovica Colli
source – https://www.ilprimatonazionale.it/primo-piano/benzina-fascette-armi-piano-infernale-attentatore-senegalese-109228/
