A 3-year-old girl in tears, locked alone in a bus parked in the middle of an industrial area. This is the incredible scene attended by a passerby, Wednesday around 9 am, in Clichy-la-Garenne (Hauts-de-Seine). She immediately notified the police.
It was around 7:50 a.m. when Ava-Liora, who was doing her first week in a Jewish nursery school in Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis), boarded this bus from the 17th arrondissement of Paris, near the Porte de Clichy. , where his family lives. In still very unclear circumstances, she would therefore have been forgotten by a supervisor, responsible for looking after the children, as well as the driver. Her mother filed a complaint.
“A monstrous shock”
“I am disgusted, devastated, I had a monstrous shock, testifies the mother of the family. I am a very solid person, but for the past two days I have not eaten, I have been shaking. ”
How long was her daughter alone on this bus? It was not until 10:40 am that the Clichy police station contacted her. “The policeman told me that something bad had happened. I immediately thought of a tragedy, I panicked, then he told me that my daughter was there, by his side. Alive… ”
In the offices, the girl is calm. But her mother is very angry. Her four children are all educated in this denominational school, Chné-Or, which teaches from kindergarten to high school in Aubervilliers. “I think I’m going to take them all out because I had a very deep shock,” she says.
The school tried to have the complaint withdrawn
On Thursday, she was received by the school administration. “They wanted me to withdraw my complaint. They told me it was very serious, that they understood, but that a miracle had happened. They told me about Torah… I told them it was out of the question, that it did not happen by chance and that it is a civil problem. ”
Contacted this Friday, the management of the establishment remained very evasive. “Things were taken very seriously, we analyzed the causes of the problem and reacted accordingly,” replied the director, Haya Nisilevich, who was also heard by the police. “This is the first time that something like this has happened and we are convinced that it will not happen again,” she continues.
“Dilapidated coaches”
The management did not wish to specify to which company the buses providing the pickup belong. “For me, these are school buses,” says Ava-Liora’s mother. It is even a parent of a student who leads them. But they are dilapidated, often break down and they have no ventilation … Do you realize for my daughter, young, and fragile, who remained in them? “
During his interview with the management, a manager posing as the school bus manager also spoke. “In the presence of the director, he told me that the facts were very serious and that the supervisor and the driver were fired on the spot,” she says. But already, the driver was not at all since parents of students saw him driving yesterday(Editor’s note: Thursday) … “
