PPC workers charged after sit-in at billing center
Eighteen Public Power Corporation workers, including GENOP union chief Nikos Fotopoulos, faced a prosecutor on Monday following a sit-in protest at the company?s billing center a day earlier.
?You?ve turned our life into hell and the country into a protectorate,? the union said.
Fotopoulos claimed that PPC had doctored the electricity bills of large firms so they pay lower property tax.
The protest was broken up after a prosecutor and riot police were called to the PPC building in the northeastern Athens suburb of Holargos.
All 18 were charged with disturbing the peace and face up to a few months in jail if convicted. Court officials said the suspects were released pending trial.
