France wants Moussaoui
Via Malkin.
Michelle said it best: BUTT OUT, FRANCE
France could seek Moussaoui transfer.
Thu May 4, 2006 1:18 PM BST
PARIS (Reuters) – France could at some stage ask the United States to allow Zacarias Moussaoui to serve his life prison sentence in a French jail, the Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
Moussaoui, a 37-year old French citizen of Moroccan origin, was jailed for life by a U.S. jury on Wednesday for his role in the September 11 2001 attacks on the United States.
France and the United States signed two agreements in the 1980s about the transfer of convicts and Moussaoui’s mother Aisha el Wafi and his lawyer have asked that the Frenchman be allowed to serve his sentence in his home country.
“A possible demand for transferring Zacarias Moussaoui could be looked at within this framework,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Jean-Baptiste Mattei said at an electronic press briefing.
“But in any case, we have to wait for the American justice system to provide a definitive sentence and to define the conditions of the sentence,” he added.
The jury found Moussaoui’s actions had not resulted in the deaths of about 3,000 people on September 11 — a central part of the government’s argument that he should face the death penalty.
He will be formally sentenced on Thursday.
Moussaoui’s mother, Aisha el Wafi, said her son would be living like a “rat in a hole” and accused France of siding with the United States during the trial.
“I feel there is a part of me that is dead, buried with my son who will be buried for the rest of his life at the age of 37 for things he hasn’t done,” she said at a news conference in Paris.
“The whole world knows it now. France knows it too but France prefers to please the Americans anyway.”
France provided information about Moussaoui to the United States on condition that it could not be used in a sentence leading to the death penalty, which it opposes.
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