Wheelchair users Zejnepe would take the bus – but the trip ended in tears

"Wheelchair users Zejnepe would take the bus – but the trip ended in tears"

"Zejnepe, 28, would for the first time to take the bus as a wheelchair user but the trip ended in tears. The driver wanted to throw it by her."

"– She screamed: ”You are handicapped only when you want to apply for grants, I have seen that you can go.”"

"Zejnepe, 28, sitting since 14 years in a wheelchair after a fallolycka. She, her husband and her femårige son would, during Tuesday, take the bus to a meeting in the town of Trollhättan. Usually she goes transportation or driving his custom car, but which at that time was filed on the mending."

"that was The first time I went by bus with a wheelchair and I didn't really know how it happened," she says."

"She rolled up to the bus, greeted and asked if they could help them out. "

" the Driver greeted, not without said: ”Are you disabled or can you walk?”."

"Well on the bus malfunctioned it first with how she would fasten itself and then with the tickets. Zejnepe thought that the person went free but was told, she took up the phone and started to buy a ticket."

"”Asked me to go by bus”"

"A woman on the bus told the driver that she would run because they would otherwise be late. "

"– Suddenly she opened the doors and asked me to get off the bus."

"When reacted with the other passengers and said to the bus driver."

"– They said: ”No, but you can't do that, this is Sweden, we don't do this.”"

"Zejnepe man took up his mobile and started filming. In the video you can hear how the bus driver says: ”You are handicapped only when you want to apply for grants, I have seen that you can go.”"

"– She said it in front of everybody, my femårige son. I was so angry and sad."

"”We are fighting every day '"

"On the way home from the meeting did not Zejnepe take the bus, but it rolled all the way home."

"– The worst part was that she didn't think I was crippled for real. It is not just to sit in a wheelchair, we are fighting every day."

"But she is very grateful for all the passengers who responded and said."

"– But I will never more in my life to ride the bus again."

"Lena Jovén, presstalesperson for Västtrafik, writes in an email to Aftonbladet that they have drawn attention to the incident and that a longer conversation with the member driver will be held, probably in the beginning of next week."