"Fu terrorismo", pm Milan asks 24 years for the bus hijacker

2020-07-08T10:24:30.608Z

The Milan prosecutor, Luca Poniz, asked for 24 years of imprisonment for Ousseynou Sy, a driver of Senegalese origins, who on 20 March 2019, hijacked, held hostage and then set on fire a bus with 50 children, two teachers and a janitor in San Donato Milanese, fortunately without causing casualties. For the prosecutor, it is also necessary to provide for perpetual interdiction from public offices. The prosecutor's request was to reconfigure the crime from simple kidnapping to kidnapping for subversion or terrorist purposes. The request at the end of the indictment on the basis of the requalification of the crimes. The accused, present in the bunker room, listened to the request, turning his back on the magistrate and the judges of the Court. The Milan counter-terrorism officer Alberto Nobili is also present in the classroom. The Milan prosecutor, Luca Poniz, who supports the prosecution in the trial against Ousseynou Sy, has changed the charge against the Senegalese driver. According to the magistrate from the kidnapping of a simple person (art. 605 of the penal code) the crime must be requalified as kidnapping for the purpose of subversion or terrorism (art. 289 bis). While in the first offense the punishment is between 6 months and 8 years (excluding aggravating ones), with the new charge the penalty would be from 25 to 30 years, because the offense falls within the crime of attack on constitutional bodies. In his indictment, the prosecutor claims that it is not necessary for the victims to be state organs or politicians, but it is enough that a simple citizen is seized to requalify the crime more seriously. The other minor offenses such as fire massacre and injury remain.