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The high risk bus ride
  • 16'30
  • Author : François-Xavier Dupouy
  • 09-05-2010
  • Master : 1859

The high risk bus ride | M6 | 66 minutes

For the last month, 47 year-old Jean has gone to work with his stomach knotted in fear. He is a driver on the number 15 bus line, which runs through the most sensitive quarters of the Seine St Denis area. Buses burned or stoned, drivers assaulted, Molotov cocktails, insults and spitting… It was a major anti-drug operation at Tremblay in France that triggered the outbreak of violence. Since then, young people have been attacking anything that represents authority: police, fire fighters, but also public transport. How do you deal with this when you are alone at the wheel of a bus? Drivers have special training in dealing with violent passengers, special CRS police units escort the buses. In order to prevent ambushes, the mayor of Tremblay has even torn up the bushes along the route that provided cover for the attackers.


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