Supreme Court Public Prosecutor Ioannis Tentes on Friday toughened his stance toward striking taxi owners and ordered police to immediately arrest and charge anyone obstructing means of transport and the movements of people using roads, airports and seaports in Greece, taking them before a police court to be tried.
The prosecutor noted that existing laws concerning the disruption of transport gave authorities the power to do this, without any express instructions or permission from a prosecutor.
This is step up from the prosecutor's earlier instructions to prosecutors, calling on them to remove the licence plates of taxis used to blockade airports or seaports and for their owners to be indicted using fast-track judicial proceedings.
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