Thursday 9 December 2010

Spanish DPP to request prison for air traffic controllers

SPAIN (Agencies) The head of Spain's DPP (Fiscalía General del Estado), Cándido Conde-Pumpido (photo), said this morning that he will be requesting up to eight years in prison for air traffic controllers who abandoned their work stations and are to be charged with sedition. Conde-Pumpido made the announcement at an interview just before entering a meeting of public prosecutors in Zaragoza this morning. On the urgent agenda was the air controllers wildcat strike of last weekend and its penal repercussions.

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