On the bus bringing them back from the school trip, the drivers are drunk… the students take 40 hours to get home

Des élèves bretons ont embarqué à bord du bus qui devait les ramener en France, mais les chauffeurs étaient ivres. dpa – Fabian Sommer

Des élèves bretons, de retour d’un voyage scolaire en Allemagne, ont eu beaucoup de mal à regagner Saint-Brieuc. En cause, le chauffeur du Flixbus qui les ramenait était ivre. Son remplaçant l’était également.

Between anger and relief at having reacted in time, the teachers who accompanied the students on this school trip to Germany are not about to forget the return journey.

After thirty minutes on the Flixbus company bus, which provides the Berlin-Paris connection, the teachers and students notice that the driver's behavior is surprising. "He did anything", testifies a student.

Very quickly the teachers realize that the bus driver is drunk. The second driver, present to take over, cannot take the wheel, he is also drunk, reports Ouest France.

A train, a bus then a TGV

The police are then notified and the bus is immobilized. You will have to wait two hours for another bus to take the students to a bus station. To return home, the students finally take a train to Hanover, a bus to Paris and from there, a TGV to Saint-Brieuc, their destination.

It took more than 40 hours in total to return. The two drivers who were intoxicated will be fired and Flixbus has apologized to "children, teachers and parents".