Noriega returns after 22 years

Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega was extradited yesterday from Paris to Panama, where expect you 60-year sentences for murder of opponents, after more than two decades imprisoned in United States and France for drug trafficking.

El Airbus 340 of the Iberia company landed on the runway 3R airport Tocumen, in city of Panama, at local H 10 18 (23 H 10 GMT), and was taken immediately to the area of the old terminal, today dedicated to loads, to disembark the General.

According to journalists aboard the plane, cited by the local television Noriega, who wore a shirt and a black hat reports should be reviewed by the medical "possibly by the impression" that caused him to reach territory Panamanian.

Escorted by police, the elder general of 77 years embarked early in Paris Orly, airport and after Madrid boarded another flight, direct to Panama.

Derrocado 20 December u000a1989 in a bloody invasion of United States, who served for years as a CIA agent, Noriega served 20 years in prison in Miami for drug trafficking, and nearly two in Paris by laundering money.

Convicted in Panama absence of disappearance and murder of opponents, Noriega, ruling de facto between 1983 and 1989, was transferred by helicopter from the airport of Tocumen to the prison of the revival, on the Canal and on the edge of a jungle zone.

"Will go to jail like any convicted person and without any privilege (...)" "Must pay for all their sorrows, all the damage, all horror, all the opprobrium, all death", said Sunday the President of Panama, Ricardo Martinelli.

A grey cell of 12 square meters, with two Windows, a door of metal, a single bed, a bathroom and a table awaits you in prison, according to photos that reported the Government to deny press versions which are you u000apreparing comforts in prison. However, Martinelli reiterated that Noriega might benefit from a bill of over 70 prisoners ask prison home.

"That decides what the judicial system, not the political system decides it, said. That possibility outraged families of the victims of the regime. The return of Noriega has resurrected his nightmares, reflected widely in the media Panamanians.

"Time of Noriega's confrontation with the Justice of Panama for their crimes against humanity, which the justice system try to have independence, and that Panamanians accompany victims", told AFP Alida Spadafora, the opponent of Hugo Spadafora, beheaded in 1985, the event that earned him the former dictator's sister one of your sentences.

Former opponents, victims, politicians and ordinary people argue that Noriega has shown no remorse and indicated that he himself has said that he will return to his country for u000adefend.

vejentado, difficulty walking and various conditions of health, the former strong man of Panama reaffirmed several times before French judges in recent months their willingness to return to their country without "hatred and grudges".

"Here there is no hatred or rancor, there is the requirement that who commits a crime in this country have to pay in prison", said Aurelio Barria, creator in 1987 from the Civilista crusade of protests against the révgimen.

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MUCHA INDIFFERENCE between the PANAMANIANS
but the Panamanians agree on holding accountable Noriega by America's bloody invasion, in a mostly young population many remain indifferent.

"There are issues that affect more Panamanians." That happened many years ago. We were small, so that the direct effects are of adults. "Today there are more important issues as poverty and crime," said Yosenis u000aDiaz, 33.

For others, the return generated expectations by the possible secrets that could reveal about political figures and forged fortunes under the regime, although the Government rejects any risk of destabilization.

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