Prestige: buscando responsables diez años después

A Coruña, Nov 13 (EFE) - Apostolos Mangouras, captain of the "Prestige" when it sank off the Spanish coast in 2002, acknowledged today before the court hearing the environmental disaster that the tanker's tanks, where the damage originated, were "corroded." Mangouras, 77, of Greece, is the main defendant in the trial being held in the Galician city of A Coruña, off whose coast in northwestern Spain more than 66,000 tons of fuel oil spilled exactly one year ago today. The captain defended himself by arguing that he is not an expert and that despite detecting corrosion in the ship's tanks, he could not assess the extent of the corrosion. www.efe.com