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Noriega could be extradited to Panama on Sunday
posted on: Dec 8 2011 7:9 by RDugey. Viewed 20 times.
Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega could be extradited to their country since France this Sunday, told AFP the Minister of Government, Roxana Méndez.
"They are trying to confirm that it could be the day Sunday", said Mendez, questioned about when will Noriega, who more than 20 years ago is prisoner in prisons in United States and France of the crime of drug trafficking.
A Panamanian, Commission composed of five staff of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, police and doctors, is in Paris from Sunday, and performs the procedures of documentation and checkups for extradition.
"Panama is ready to receive Noriega because long ago we were hoping that the formalities are carried out (...)" "already had anticipated the alternatives", added Mendez to the AFP
On conditions of detention of Noriega, the Minister pointed out that "it will be in a single area which has a bathroom" u000aprivate. "It is going to be in a single cell and in an area close to the various workshops and schools".
Noriega is a detainee will be treated under the same conditions of other inmates who reside at the penitentiary reborn", located Northwest of city of Panama, in an area lined with the channel and areas forested.
Prison, added the official, "was recently remodeled and were installed equipment and security technology that allows us to be more relaxed,".
A medical Commission visited the Wednesday morning to Noriega in the prison of La Santé in Paris. A subsequent report of the Panamanian Foreign Ministry indicated that the former dictator is fit to travel to his country, where await it three sentences of 20 years for the death and murder of opponents in the 1980s.
Man strong Panama between 1983 and 1989, Noriega, of 77, is detained at La Santé from April 2010, when he came to Paris u000aextradited by United States, where he was imprisoned 21 years for drug trafficking. France required it for money laundering
The President of Panama, Ricardo Martinelli, said last Friday that Noriega was extradited "between 6 and 13 December" and would be ""direct in jail".
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