Dictator Manuel Noriega Extradited to Panama
by The French Court gave the green light to the process. In your country, faces 60 years sentences for the murder of opponents. He arrived this evening.
The former dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega came tonight to Panama, where he expected 60-year sentences for the murder of opponents, after more than two decades in prison in France and the United States for drug trafficking.
The Spanish airline Iberia company came to the track 3R Tocumen International Airport in Panama City, at 18h10 local and was rushed to the area of the old terminal, now devoted to cargo.
According to reports from journalists who traveled on the plane, Noriega had to be examined by doctors, “possibly because of the impression” that caused him to get to Panama.
Overthrown December 20, 1989 in a bloody U.S. invasion, he served for years as a CIA operative, Noriega served 20 years in prison in Miami for drug trafficking, and almost two in Paris for money laundering.
Convicted in absentia in Panama to 60 years for abduction and murder of opponents, Noriega, de facto ruler from 1983 to 1989, it will be airlifted to Tocumen Airport El Renacer Prison, which is heavily guarded by police.
The former general surrendered on January 3, 1990 U.S. troops, who days earlier had invaded his country in order to stop and “restore democracy.” He was taken by drug agents of the DEA to a prison near Miami, Florida to stand trial.
Twenty months after delivery and after several postponements, in September 1991 the trial began in federal court for drug trafficking and “money laundering” after allowing the shipment to the U.S. shipments of cocaine from Colombian Medellin cartel disappeared in the 1980s.
On April 9, 1992 was sentenced to 40 years in prison for eight crimes he is accused. No two initiatives flourished for a mistrial, but did manage to successive reductions of sentence for good behavior.
On September 9, 2007, Noriega served his sentence but was held in a Miami jail awaiting resolution of their delivery to France, which had been requested in April 2004 after being convicted in absentia in 1999 to ten years prison for laundering $ 3.1 million from drug trafficking, money that had acquired several luxury properties in Paris.
On April 27, 2010 Noriega extradited to France came after the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to the French request on 25 January of that year. On July 7, 2010 in Paris was sentenced to seven years in prison and ordered to pay 1 million euros to the Panamanian government, which was part of the process.
Panama sent to France on June 1, 2010 a first order of extradition for the murder of Hugo Spadafora opponent in 1985, which were added two more in January and March 2011 for the death of Moses and the union Giroldi Heliodoro Portugal , respectively.
Of the three applications Panama, France approved the Spadafora and Noriega informed the July 29, 2011, after receiving approval from the United States.
The French courts in September 2011 rejected the extradition by the death of Heliodoro Portugal, in 1970, barred.
On November 23, 2011, the French courts agreed to extradite Noriega to Panama.
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