Board of Spainsh Air Controllers union charged for alleged “kidnapping passengers”

The board of the Spanish air controllers' union has been charged for alleged responsibility in the abandonment of control towers for the past 3 and 4 December, which saw the closure of airspace in Spain.

 

The head of the Court of Instruction No. 33 of Madrid has charged the entire board of the Union of Air Traffic Controllers Association (USCA).
 

The leadership of the union, which represents more than 90 percent of the group, should explain to the judge if its members called the night of December 2 to attend various meetings the next day and if they resulted in the abandonment of posts work by 400 drivers in Spain.

The judge will have to call to testify USCA now vice president, José Manuel Acevedo, Secretary General, Abel Hernandez, the then secretary of communication, César Cabo and union spokesman, Daniel Zamit, among others, as defendants for alleged sedition, coercion, abandonment of post and kidnapping passengers.