It all happened friday afternoon in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Newspapers says:
A bus driver at Transdev (former Veolia) was on his way home, still in uniform, after an 11 hour workday.
Ticket inspectors entered the bus he travelled with and he showed them his employee card and uniform.
The ticket inspectors wanted to see another card, some special yellow card, that the driver did not have, and neither he or Transdev even knew he needed, and an argument started.
The argument quickly escalated as the inspectors, according to witnesses, became aggressive and screamed at the man that "You need a ticket, do you understand that" and then with force dragged the bus driver out of the bus, where people started filming the rest of the event.
Security guards (for some reason not Community Service Officers) came to the scene and put the busdriver in handcuffs.
In the film one of the guards can be seen and heard as he verbally abuse the man when he is sitting on the ground (the best in a situation like this when a man is in handcuffs and are calm would be to keep calm and wait for police to arrive, not start to argue about events you did not witness).
The police arrives and the guard and the inspectors leave as the police officers calm and professionally take the man to their car and passengers tell the police that they are witnesses.
The bus driver was reported for assaulting a police officer (n sweden that law does not only apply to police officers but also taxi drivers, bus drivers, conductors, anyone in uniform, police officers etc) and the bus driver reported the inspectiors for assault. (but actually, both parties should be reported for assaulting a police officer as they both are protected by the same law.)
I was not on that bus, so I can't say exactly what happened there. But I think everyone can agreee that the situation is quite bizarre and also ended in a way that noone wanted. The passengers on the bus tells newspapers that the busdriver was not in any way violent when the ticket inspectors started to use violence, but again, I wasn't there. But something went wrong.
(The text above is based on articles and on the video).
Haven't found any articles in english about this)
Transdev, G4S (Security & Ticket Inspectors) and Västtrafik (Passenger transport authority of Västra Götaland County) will have a meeting on monday and discuss the matter. The bus driver was injured, but it was only a minor injury, and is on payed leave.
http://www.gp.se/nyheter/goteborg/1....for-tjuvakning Google Translate
http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article20882340.ab (Can't be translated in Google Translate)
http://www.gp.se/nyheter/goteborg/1....ufforen-uppror Google Translate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7M4EenLg-U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ7ywtT7wb0
Busdrivers are writing on Västtrafik's facebook that they will not let any ticket inspectors board their bus and passengers are posting hateful comments on Västtrafik's facebook about the incident,
People are also praising Transdev for quickly announcing that the driver may have been misinformed by them.
The ticket inspectors for Västtrafik already had a bad reputation among the people (even those who have a ticket)