More Than 100 Military Doctors Asking Clemency for Condemned The Yak-42
Dozens of military doctors, more than 100, although Defence refuses to provide a figure-have been directed in recent weeks a letter to the secretary of the department, Maria Victoria San José, which call for clemency for the three officers of Health that were convicted of the false identification of 30 of the 62 victims of the crash of Yak-42. The signatories claim that “careers [the three men] have performed with strict adherence to hierarchy, command and military discipline.”
General Vicente Navarro was sentenced to three years and commanders Jose Ramon Ramirez and Miguel Angel Saiz, 18 months, although all have been asked to suspend his imprisonment. The last two lost their military career.