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"Prosecutor wants jail for Italian air traffic controllers"

Friday, January 14, 2005

Prosecutor wants jail for Italian air traffic controllers
M2 Communications


Italian air traffic controllers may face between six and 19 months in jail
after being spotted shopping or playing football instead of working. 

Italian prosecutor Fabio Roia has reportedly asked the judge in the case to
sentence the 36 air traffic controllers to jail. It was found that only
about half of the 40 air traffic controllers due to be working at Milan's
Linate airport were actually present at work when an investigation was being
carried out, according to prosecutor Fabio Roia. 

According to Reuters, the investigation was launched after an incident in
2000. At that time, the absence of air traffic controllers at the airport
during a blackout at a Rome airport left Linate too short of staff and the
airport was unable to cope with the extra work of monitoring additional
Italian airspace. Police reportedly managed to film some of the missing
controllers shopping or playing football in working hours and these have
been charged with defrauding the state. 

The judge is expected to make a ruling in February.


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