WORLD BRIEFING / FRANCE
Lakhdar Boumediene, a Guantanamo Bay prisoner who was at the center of a Supreme Court battle over inmates’ rights, has arrived in France, which agreed to take in the Algerian in a gesture to the Obama administration.
The French government has arranged for his medical care if needed, spokesman Eric Chevallier said. Boumediene, held for seven years, has been on a hunger strike since 2006 and was force-fed at the prison, his lawyers say.
Boumediene, suspected in an alleged bomb plot against the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo, was arrested in Bosnia with five other Algerian natives in 2001. He asked to go to France because he has family in the country, Chevallier said.
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