French prosecutors demand 10 years' jail for Noriega

  • 14 years ago
French prosecutors on Wednesday demanded the maximum 10-year jail sentence for Panama's ageing former dictator Manuel Noriega on charges of laundering drug money. The 76-year-old general has denied taking payments from Colombian drug lords in the 1980s, dismissing the accusations that he laundered drug money in France as a scheme concocted by the United States.Duration: 00:44

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