A French driver has been praised for kicking every single passenger off his bus after they failed to make room for a man in a wheelchair.
Francois Le Berre, who has multiple sclerosis, was waiting to get on a bus in a Paris suburb, but none of the passengers would move to allow him space.
The bus driver, who has not been named, noticed the problem and took the unprecedented step of asking every single passenger to leave the bus.
He then allowed Mr Le Berre to come on board and drove off with him as the sole passenger.
A tweet describing the incident was shared by a group called “Accessible Pour Tous” – which translates as ‘accessible for all’ on behalf of Mr Le Berre.
It read: “Yesterday while waiting for the bus in Paris, nobody wanted to move themselves. As no one was moving the driver stood up and said ‘Terminating! Everybody off!’ After he came to see me and said ‘you can go up and the others, you wait for the next one!’”
It has been shared more than 5,000 times and ‘liked’ by more than 10,000 people, with many congratulating the bus driver and criticising the passengers who failed to move.
“Bravo to the bus driver, but shame on the passengers,” wrote one person.
But another responded: “You wouldn’t have moved either.”
Buses in the French capital normally have one or two spaces for a wheelchair, and passengers are supposed to give priority to them and allow users to get on.
