A deplorable incident, fortunately without dramatic consequences.
Saturday evening, in Beauvais, around 9:30 p.m., a bus from the transport company Corolis was stoned.
For reasons that remain to be clarified, a projectile was thrown at the C1 bus, which passed rue de la Briqueterie, near the Rimbaud stop.
An impact to the front, on the left side, shattered a window of the vehicle.
While the unidentified object did not injure anyone, the driver evacuated the passengers.
“There were no passengers at the place of impact, there were no injuries, confirms Frédéric Colomb, director of Transdev Beauvaisis Mobilités, in charge of operating the network.
At this time, it is one of the last trips, there are not many people.
We secured the staff and passengers and diverted the line.
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Service for the entire line resumed on Sunday morning
The police will make observations on the ground, hear the driver and open an investigation, while the transport company will file a complaint within the week.
So far, no arrests have been made.
“We could see that it was a group of young people, a bus shelter was also degraded on rue de la Procession”, adds Sandra Plomion, second deputy mayor of Beauvais in charge of security and prevention.
Line C1, which joins the Argentine district to the Saint-Jean district, is not customary for this type of incident according to Frédéric Colomb, who describes the incident as an "isolated act".
Sunday morning, traffic resumed on the entire course.
This episode comes four days after the attack on a bus driver in Montataire, in the Creil basin.
Two hooded individuals stopped a bus and threw a hammer at the driver's window before fleeing.
An investigation is underway.