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 said. He will be formally sentenced today.
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.
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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.