Bayonne: Bus driver left brain dead after being 'attacked over face masks'

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Source: BBC News


A bus driver in the south-west of France has been left brain dead after reportedly being attacked by passengers who refused to wear face masks.

The driver in Bayonne had refused to allow several people - who had no tickets and were not wearing masks - to board the bus on Sunday night, a police source told AFP news agency.

The man, who is in his 50s, sustained serious head injuries after being punched.

Five people have been arrested.


Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53309424

[CrispyQ]

1. No words.

[NurseJackie]

2. Insanity. We are devolving.

[MontanaMama]

3. Crazy people all over the planet.

it isn’t just here.

[lagomorph777]

4. It is really looking like the days of the Black Death.

People went insane and did all kinds of crazy shit.

[Lulu KC]

6. Yes--my first thought

Not comforting. Ruins my fantasies of, "I'll go live where the smart people are."

[whistler162]

5. Not NJ but France

[Jedi Guy]

17. Yeah, I was quite surprised when I read that. I thought for sure it'd be NJ.

Seems like there's a second pandemic going on and the crazy virus is spreading unchecked.

[Faux pas]

7. Kickin' with disgust!

and

[AllaN01Bear]

9. grrr

[progree]

10. "Regional bus services have been severely disrupted as drivers refuse to work following the incident

"

[generalbetrayus]

11. Early in the shutdown here in Colorado, RTD (Regional Transportation District),

the bus service in the Denver metro area, shut the front door to the buses, and had people enter by the back door (for free!) precisely because it didn't want drivers to have to face down psychopaths like these clowns. Better to let them board via the back door and have the bus driver call the cops on them from a distance.

[SunSeeker]

12. OMG, I thought only Trumpers were this insane.

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Are there Trumpers in France?

[uppityperson]

13. Yes, there's too many rw extremists even in France.

[Marcuse]

14. Le Pen is about as bad.

[DSandra]

16. Far right wingers everywhere are insane and dangerous

[Cha]

15. I hope they throw the fucking book and masks at them!

Nobody gets on our Buses on Kauai without a mask.. on the side of the bus by the door there's a sign stating NO MASK NO RIDE

And, the driver supplies an orange bandana if someone needs a mask. boom

So sorry about the Driver

[muriel_volestrangler]

18. French bus driver dies following attack by passengers who refused to wear masks

Philippe Monguillot, 59, died in hospital on Friday, his daughter Marie told AFP. “We decided to let him go. The doctors were in favour and we were as well,” she said.
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Two men have been charged with attempted murder, two others with non-assistance to a person in danger and another with attempting to hide a suspect, the local prosecutor’s office said.

The two charged with attempted murder are aged 22 and 23. They were previously known to the police.

The Bayonne prosecutor Jerome Bourrier, who confirmed the driver had died, told AFP that he would ask for the charges to be changed to take into account his death.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/10/philippe-monguillot-french-bus-driver-dies-following-attack-passengers-refused-wear-masks

[LisaL]

19. Brain dead is dead.

So he was already dead, I am assuming by letting him go they agreed to remove a ventilator.

[electric_blue68]

20. Just horrific! Thot it was NJ at first, too. "Glad" it wasn't.