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praetorian6
05-04-2006, 12:11 PM
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France could seek Moussaoui transfer
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PARIS (*******) - 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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XShipRider
05-04-2006, 12:14 PM
If they'll guarantee no parole this is a win-win for the American public.
France is willing to bankroll the condemned prisoner -- I say "Let 'em!"

Besides that, his mother is not the condemned here. She's only a mother,
like most mothers, who wants to visit her son from time to time (a VERY
DERANGED son but a son nonetheless).

Just my $.02.
budgie
05-04-2006, 12:43 PM
And even if the answer is no I doubt the French are gonna miss him.
XxDualityxX
05-04-2006, 12:48 PM
Not gonna happen.
Zarathustra
05-04-2006, 02:01 PM
You can keep him there, we ain't gonna miss him.
Laworkerbee
05-04-2006, 04:39 PM
If they'll guarantee no parole this is a win-win for the American public.
France is willing to bankroll the condemned prisoner -- I say "Let 'em!"

Besides that, his mother is not the condemned here. She's only a mother,
like most mothers, who wants to visit her son from time to time (a VERY
DERANGED son but a son nonetheless).

Just my $.02.

he is allowed minimal family contact, he is never allowed to make a statement ever again as well either, his only human contact is to be with guards or hopefully anal rape.

Not so in France, lets keep it that way..
usa_patriot
05-04-2006, 04:42 PM
Let the transfer go through...then on the plane ride to france, kick the ****bird out the back door @ 20,000ft. oops
Geezah
05-04-2006, 05:02 PM
I'd like to see him spend time in the super max prison out in Colorado. If he gets to spends his time in France, there is a chance his sentence might change sometime down the road,IMHO.
sferrin
05-04-2006, 05:25 PM
I'd like to see him spend time in the super max prison out in Colorado. If he gets to spends his time in France, there is a chance his sentence might change sometime down the road,IMHO.


Knowing the French he'd probably become a celebrity.
Zarathustra
05-04-2006, 05:37 PM
Knowing the French he'd probably become a celebrity.
That's pretty unintentionally funny.
futurepilot2004
05-04-2006, 06:16 PM
That's pretty unintentionally funny.
x2, I knew this thread would result in at least 1 person having an idiotic dig at the French the moment I saw the title.
LaoSexMachine
05-04-2006, 06:42 PM
Won't happen. If they did then who ever is President will feel the wrath of the family members who lost love ones on 9/11.
Kilgor
05-04-2006, 07:26 PM
I very much doubt it will happen. But aparently french jails are no easy place either, very tough conditions.
praetorian6
05-04-2006, 07:31 PM
x2, I knew this thread would result in at least 1 person having an idiotic dig at the French the moment I saw the title.

I didn't post this to start a flame war with France, I was mainly just curious as to what the French guys thought about it.
BlackRain
05-04-2006, 07:35 PM
I very much doubt it will happen. But aparently french jails are no easy place either, very tough conditions.

True. There is a limit on 2 black berets issued per year and your ration of white mime face paint is very meager.p-)
Zarathustra
05-04-2006, 07:48 PM
I didn't post this to start a flame war with France, I was mainly just curious as to what the French guys thought about it.
No one around here wants him to be back, only his whining mom and lawyers but believe me no one give a crap about them.

That won't happen.
tooms
05-05-2006, 06:28 AM
I didn't post this to start a flame war with France, I was mainly just curious as to what the French guys thought about it.


You can keep Moussaoui if you want. People i know don't care about him.