Bus driver praised for his amazing gesture to disabled passenger

Publish Date
Friday, 2 November 2018, 4:54PM
Photo / Twitter

Photo / Twitter

A bus driver from Paris has been called a hero after he cleared out his bus after the passengers refused to accommodate for a wheelchair-bound passenger trying to board.

Francois Le Berre, who has multiple sclerosis, was waiting patiently at a bus stop in Porte de Clichy in the French capital's suburbs.

When the bus that he was waiting for arrived, the passengers that were on the bus flatly refused to make room for him, leaving Francois and his friend stranded outside.

The driver then shouted at all the passengers that refused to move and instructed them all to get off the bus.

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Mr Le Berre said: "Yesterday while waiting for the bus in Paris, I laughed because no-one wanted to budge.

"When nobody moved the driver got up and said: 'Terminus! Everybody off the bus!'

"After that the driver came to see me and said, 'you and your helper, you can get on, and the others, you can wait for the next one!'"

Speaking to France's Huffington Post, he said the bus driver had told him that "everyone might need a wheelchair one day".

After waiting for passengers to disperse he had come down to talk to Mr Le Berre and his brother and tell them they could get on the bus.

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Paris's bus company asked for details so they could pass the group's good wishes on to the driver.

The tweet has been retweeted more than 5,000 times and liked more than 10,000 times and many users praised the driver's intervention.

One said: "The bus driver is a hero!", while another wrote: "Congratulations to the bus driver, but shame on the passengers".

Another user said: "Bravo to the driver who emptied his bus to allow the disabled person to get on.

"Good lesson. I hope the other passengers understood."

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