When will Manuel Noriega go to France to face charges?”
Two decades after United States troops invaded Panama and arrested Manuel Noriega, the country’s dictator, Mr. Noriega arrived in France on Tuesday to face trial on money laundering charges. Mr. Noriega, who had been serving a 30-year sentence in a federal prison in Miami on drug charges, was put on an Air France flight for Paris on Monday after the State Department authorized his extradition,, said one of his lawyers, John May. Mr. Noriega had lost a court battle seeking to be returned to Panama after completing a federal prison term. In 1999, he was convicted in France in absentia of laundering more than $3 million in drug profits by buying luxury apartments there. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison. France has agreed to hold a new trial.
