French court to rule on Noriega extradition today

November 23, 2011 16:23

Behind bars for more than two decades in the US and France, former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega may soon be headed home likely to another prison cell.

A Paris appeals court rules today whether to grant an extradition request from Panama so the elderly ex-military strongman can serve out sentences given after he was convicted in absentia there, in the latest phase of his complex legal odyssey.

Friends and foes alike have feared that Noriega might die in a French prison notably Panamanians who fought against human rights abuses during his 1983-1989 regime. They want to see him face justice at home.

Noriega, a one-time CIA asset who lorded over Panama from 1983 to 1989, turned into an embarrassment for the US after he sidled up to Colombia's Medellin drug cartel and turned to crime.

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