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Colpito con pietre e mattoni un autobus carico di scolari

La madre di un alunno di 12 anni, è convinta che l’attacco contro il bus di cui il figlio era passeggero, sia di chiaro stampo settario.
Il veicolo infatti stava trasportando bambini del Boys Model di Belfast, scuola a predominanza protestante, quando è stato preso di mira da lanci di pietre e mattoni mentre stava percorrendo la Oldpark Road a West Belfast.
Un amico del figlio della Sig.ra Moody, è stato colpito da un mattone che gli ha causato un brutto taglio sul viso. Questi ragazzini di soli 12 anni non riescono a concepire che persone possano trovarsi in quel posto, solo per far loro del male.
Michael Dornan del Unite ha dichiarato che ci si trova al cospetto di “teppisti senza mente”, che stanno mettendo a serio rischio la vita degli autisti sempre più arrabbiati. Molti di loro infatti sono oggetto di attacchi di questa matrice quasi quotidianamente e non tutti sono disposti a continuare a mettere in pericolo la loro incolumità per adempiere al loro lavoro.
Dornan ha aggiunto: “E’ potenzialmente tentato omicidio – quando il conducente viene ferito le conseguenze di un autobus fuori controllo potrebbero essere gravi lesioni o incidenti mortali sia per le persone a bordo che per gli innocenti passanti.

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North Belfast bus attack ‘sectarian’ (U TV)
A mother of a 12 year old schoolboy who was a passenger on a bus attacked with bricks and stones on Wednesday believes it was targeted because there were children from a predominantly protestant school on board.
‘That’s exactly why it was targeted, there is no doubt that is the issue here”, she said.
Mrs Moody’s sons’ friend, a pupil at the Boys Model in Belfast, was hit with a brick and sustained a bad cut to his face as the bus made its way along the Oldpark Road on Wednesday.
It is understood this is not the first time the bus has been targeted.
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Mrs Mooney added, “He thought they were going to get on the bus to get him … he is 12 years old he doesn’t understand that people are just so set out to hurt people that way … he’s just baffled at the minute – why – why they would do it.”
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Michael Dornan from Unite called the perpetrators “mindless thugs” who were endangering lives and said that bus drivers were angry.
“It’s a terrible ordeal for all concerned. Unfortunately these events have happened over the years – it’s absolutely dreadful.”
He said that it was an ongoing problem that needed to be addressed urgently.
“Drivers suffer broken windows at times on a daily basis. It has been ongoing. At times we put our lives in danger to do our job.”
Mr Dornan said that drivers were not prepared to keep putting their lives on the line.
“It’s potentially attempted murder – if the driver is injured the consequences of that bus out of control could be serious injuries or fatalities to people inside and innocent bystanders.
“And someone needs to take responsibility of taking it on board and trying to get it stopped.”