EXCLUSIVE. Jerko Tipurić saved 16 students: “When that train hit my bus, everything came back. Even the sexual abuse as a child”

When bus driver Jerko Tipurić (64) hears how high he finished in this election, he can’t breathe for a moment. Since his bus broke down on the train tracks in Zedelgem on November 29 and he coolly saved the lives of 16 teenagers, he has been under a shower of emotions. Sometimes the water is warm, sometimes ice cold. “All the traumas that I thought had been dealt with are resurfacing. The sexual abuse from my childhood, the frustration with my coaching career, … but that’s okay. Finally I can come clean.”

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