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The burnt bus of the hostage driver on a highway south of Milan, March 20, 2019. Flavio LO SCALZO / AFP

Still many questions in Italy two days after the hostage of fifty children by their bus driver. In particular, on the degree of preparation and motivation of this 47-year-old Italo-Senegalese who burned the bus while the police had just evacuated his occupants in extremis . The Italian press, however, obtained information from police sources.

Ousseynou Sy regrets nothing and would remake a hundred times his gesture if given the opportunity. According to the Corriere della Sera , the bus driver told the police. But he says he did not want to hurt anyone, his goal: "to go on the runway of the airport with the children that I would have used as a shield, and from there to fly to Africa in a vivid way ", He confides to the investigators according to Corriere della Sera .

It is also to send a signal to Africans that this naturalized Senegalese Senegalese eighteen years ago sequestered the 51 passengers of his bus. According to the daily, for Ousseynou Sy, Africans must stay in Africa. He also denounced the colonization at the origin of the current emigration. And he explains his passage to the act by the seizure Tuesday by the Italian authorities of the ship Mare Ionio carrying migrants.

But according to the newspaper Messagero , Ousseynou Sy reported Monday as a suspicious behavior, appearing nervous and trying to change the course of his bus before being called to order by a teacher. So premeditated act or madness? Ousseynou Sy's lawyer asked for a psychiatric report from his client.