A tragedy occurred this Wednesday, February 8 in the city of Montreal. A man driving a bus deliberately crashed into a daycare centre, killing two four-year-old children. Six others are hospitalized.
Early in the morning, as the parents dropped off their children at daycare, a bus hit the establishment head-on. It’s a tragedy for the small town of Laval near Montrealaround 8:30 a.m. man driving his bus deliberately rushed on this collective care of young children made up of approximately 85 schoolchildren. Located in a rather quiet residential area to the west of the city, no one could have foreseen this tragedy. Several children were unfortunately trapped under the bus of this 51-year-old man, causing the death of two of them.
The emergency services of the city of Montreal informed AFP that one of the two children had died on the spot. The second succumbed to his injuries after being taken care of by paramedics. For the six others rushed to hospital, fortunately their vital prognoses are no longer engaged even if they remain seriously injured. A mother says that ” vsit is the class of the oldest children who has been affected ».
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The controlled driver
What we know at the moment is that theact is deliberate and that the 51-year-old man may have been brought under control with the help of a neighbor and relatives present on the premises. It is the neighbour, Hamdi Ben Chaabane who relates the facts about Radio Canada : ” He opened the door. He took off all his clothes. He was completely naked. We dove on him to subdue him.”. He adds again in shock at the event: “He was in another world, he kept screaming. He said no words.”.
Called very quickly by the forces of order, the man, Pierre Ny St-Armand, is under the yoke of nine counts of which “premeditated murder”, “attempted murders and “homicide and dangerous driving”. He was immediately put in a cell in a psychiatric hospital and very quickly appeared by videoconference before the Montreal court. A journalist present during the interview reports that the suspect did not not provide a single word during this short appearance and that he only communicated through nods while wearing big smiles. The criminal will remain in a psychiatric hospital until his hearing scheduled for February 17explains prosecutor Karine Dalphond.
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A mourning for the whole country
THE whole country is in mourning after this terrible tragedy. The Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a point of expressing himself by declaring: “I am devastated. We all are. I can’t imagine what families go through. This is the biggest nightmare imaginable for any parent”. It is also the Quebec Prime Minister François Legault who expressed his support for the families through a tweet: “There’s nothing more cruel than preying on our children”. The politician must go there today.
A mourning carried by the entire nation, several events have been set up. The flags of Quebec at half-mast, the tower of the Montreal stadium extinguished Wednesday evening as well as the CN tower in Toronto. Our deepest condolences to the families of the victims.