An unlicensed school driver has taken children hostage and demanded money from them

“He held the children hostage in the bus,” the father of a high school student in Koropi told newsit.gr about the 66-year-old driver who was arrested without a license outside the school in Kalivia.

The protagonist of another incredible incident is a professional driver who was arrested for transporting 40 students in one of his two buses outside a high school in Vidiya last Tuesday noon.

For this particular incident, he faces police and judicial authorities, but apparently not only that.

About 1.5 years ago, his behavior raised alarms at another high school in the area, where he took it upon himself to run school routes. “Since 2021, we have been “chasing” this person with complaints for a long time, because we had many problems with the bus. He worked drunk, constantly cursed children, was too late to arrive, ran red lights, violated stops, did various illegal actions, “said. His 66-year-old father tells newsit.gr about the kid in high school who ran the school routes. 2021.

“Hold Children Hostage”

On November 12, 2021 at around 8 am, parents of the said school received phone calls from their children who, in fear, had stopped the vehicle suddenly and unjustifiably on the roadside on the pretext that two handles had been damaged. He asked for 30 euros to continue the route and take them to school.

“The driver claimed that the students had broken his handlebars and eventually it was revealed that he was lying. They didn’t break anything. He held the children on the bus hostage for twenty minutes and told them that they would not go to school unless they were paid, so they arrived late to school. Our children called us from their mobile phones and told us that he did not go to school and we searched to find him.

“Then came the issue of his degree.”

In fact, the student’s father, who described the unprecedented incident on newsit.gr, witnessed the driver’s hostile behavior while talking to his child on the phone and asked him and his classmates not to continue the route. .

The bus finally arrived at the high school, where, according to the complaint filed by 32 parents of the school’s students, the ridiculous images continued. “The driver continued to yell at our minor children and demanded money, yelling at them about the alleged damage, this time refusing to open the bus doors to allow the students to get off and go to school on time. At approximately 8:20 a.m., when the children were trapped inside the bus, scared and scared, the school deputy The principal intervened and tried to calm the driver’s anger, assuring him that on Monday (11/11/2021) the children would collect the money, which eventually resulted in the driver opening the door of the bus and the children getting down.

After the parents rushed to the school and the high school administration informed the police, the 66-year-old man was taken to the local department. We kicked him out of our school and we never saw him again.

Attacked colleagues

According to the student’s father, the 66-year-old driver allegedly misbehaved with his colleagues. “I also spoke to his colleagues and they told me that he constantly threatened them, slapped colleagues and had cases. In fact, on the particular day I had an argument with the driver, he threw a water bottle at the face of one of his colleagues.

The complaint of the parents of the specified high school was submitted on 11/18/2021 and forwarded to the Department of Education of Attica Region, Deputy Regional Governor of East Attica, Mayor of Kropias, Municipal Education Committee. Grobias Municipality, School Committee for Secondary Education of Grobias Municipality, Secondary Education Directorate of Eastern Attica, High School Directorate and KTEL of Attica.

In fact, the parents of the students, along with their complaint, demanded the following from the authorities: “The owner and driver of the bus should be immediately removed, not fired and stopped in any other way, because we consider him dangerous. For physical integrity and mental health of young children”.

He never wore a mask

newsit.gr also has visual materials at its disposal for the aforementioned high school students on their way home from school. As you can see in the video, the 66-year-old is talking on his mobile phone without the aid of wireless headphones, which is not allowed and is punishable by the Road Traffic Code.

But in addition to the crime, several children have boarded his vehicle, and he must be especially careful and not distracted by phone conversations. At the same time, there were few times he cursed, while he did not wear the protective mask imposed as a safety measure during the coronavirus era. In fact, according to reports, he was even fined for his refusal.

At the same time, photos sent to newsit.gr by the parents of the particular school show the plight of the 66-year-old’s bus. As we can tell in the exclusive pictures, the backs of some of the seats are broken and he has tied them with rope to keep them from falling.

Anna – Rose Tsutsa.