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Sy: I wanted my story to travel around the world

2/3/2020, 2:56:12 PM


"I wanted to be arrested for my story to travel around the world." (HANDLE)

(ANSA) - MILAN, FEBRUARY 03 - "I wanted to be arrested for my story to travel around the world". Oussenyou Sy, the 47-year-old who hijacked, seized and burned a bus with 50 boys on board, two teachers and a janitor, near San Donato Milanese, said this during the interrogation in the classroom in Milan. He claimed that his plan was to arrive by bus to Milan, "or in any case beyond the Adda", so that the competent court for his case was that of Milan. "I wanted to come to one of the largest courts in the world" to "tell the horror that is happening before our eyes", or the situation of migrants who died in the Mediterranean. As the prosecutor pointed out Luca Poniz, the owner of the investigation, on the contrary the man, on various occasions and in the course of the interrogation that took place after the incident, claimed to devolve arriving by bus to Linate airport.