Spain official rapped for parliament video stunt

MADRID, Oct 3 (Reuters) A Spanish official has been disciplined for allowing four pranksters to sneak into parliament and video themselves pretending to steal the prime minister's chair.

Parliament has also contacted state prosecutors about a spoof video posted on the Internet, which showed four hooded figures stealing the chair Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero sits on during debates, it said in a news release yesterday.

''The prime minister's chair is still there,'' the parliament said, adding that it had disciplined one of its own officials for letting in the pranksters, who had been identified..

A group calling itself Four Cats posted the video on the Internet at http://levantetezp.blogspot.com. It said the video was its contribution to a global campaign against poverty.

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