After nearly 10 years of judicial wrangling, an Algerian citizen suspected of complicity in a deadly Paris bombing in 1995 is being extradited from Britain to France for trial, French Justice Minister Pascal Clement said Thursday. Clement said Rachid Ramda was "on an airplane" and expected to arrive on French soil late afternoon on Thursday. Ramda is suspected of having financed the July 25, 1995, bombing of a central Paris suburban train station in which 8 people died and 150 were injured, reported Deutsche Presse Agentur (dpa). The 35-year-old Ramda is also suspected of having taken part in the bombings of the Maison-Blanche metro station and the suburban train station at the Orsay Museum, both also in 1995. Ramda was placed under extraditionary detention on November 10, 1995, and spent nearly 10 years in London's high-security Belmarsh Prison while France filed nine separate extradition procedures. According to media reports, he final go-ahead for the extradition was given this summer after the government of Prime Minister Tony Blair exerted pressure on the judiciary. --SP 2313 Local Time 2013 GMT
