Return by bus from Krakow for Albano Laziale students, parent protests

The 34 students from the two classes of the Ugo Foscolo high school in Albano Laziale (Rome) who yesterday found themselves in Krakow's Market Square at the time of the shooting that took the lives of six people will only arrive home at 6 am tomorrow morning.

They will all return together on a bus that will leave this morning and will face a journey of over 20 hours with two drivers.

The children rejected the alternative that had been proposed by the travel agency and the principal: that of dividing them into groups to have them return on staggered flights from today until Tuesday.

But the solution adopted to stay all together does not reassure the parents, who were not involved in the choice.

"We were worried about the attack and now we are worried about a very long journey of 1,600 km with two drivers" Moira Buttu, mother of one of the boys, told ANSA.

Yesterday the Foscolo students missed the return flight scheduled for 7.30pm from Krakow because a small group of them, who had taken refuge in the Hard Rock Café at the time of the shooting, were then accompanied to the police station to acquire testimony useful for the investigations.

A circumstance that should have weighed on their return as soon as possible and in the quickest way, according to Mrs Buttu, mother of one of the boys interviewed by the police.

"They missed the plane for this reason, they had to be helped.

I don't understand why an airliner wasn't arranged to bring the two classes back to Italy as quickly as possible.

The option of having the boys leave in three staggered days was not even to be considered.

Instead, a solution should have been found to have everyone leave by plane.

If it wasn't possible from Krakow, we could also think of taking them by bus to Trieste and from there taking a flight to Rome.

The Farnesina, we were told, said that the issue does not fall within its competence, given that the risk has passed.

But how, the State shouldn't worry about bringing back 34 kids who found themselves in the middle of an attack because now there are no more risks?".