Homeless man dies after being 'violently ejected' from bus by driver for refusing to leave
A BUS driver has been arrested on manslaughter charges after a surveillance video of him fatally pushing a frail homeless man out of a night bus emerged.
The bus driver was arrested on manslaughter charges
The 37-year-old victim was found unconscious at a bus stop in the northern Paris suburb of Garges-lès-Gonesse last Friday by an onlooker, who immediately called emergency medical services.
The unnamed victim, who had suffered a heart attack, died in hospital several hours later, police said.
The unnamed victim suffered a heart attack
Officers initially thought that the homeless man had died of natural causes.
But after viewing the CCTV footage they realised the man had had a heart attack after being “violently ejected” from a night bus by a driver.
The man was found at a bus stop in Paris
Police said that the driver had grabbed the homeless man – who was refusing to get off the bus – by his scarf and “thrown him to the ground” where he landed with a thud.
Police added that the driver had “failed to call for help” even though the man was “clearly in distress” as he was having a cardiac arrest, making the driver responsible for the victim’s premature death.
Local prosecutor Éric Corbaux said: “The autopsy report revealed that the homeless man died of suffocation."