Government readying prison accommodation for Noriega

Panama is preparing  prison accommodation to hold former dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega  says the Minister of Government Prensa.com, Roxana Mendez.

The Minister is awaiting official notification of the arrival of Noriega from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Meanwhile, says La Prensa she confirmed that the perimeter of the El Renacer prison  near the Gamboa resort, is a likely location.
The ministry will await word from government prosecutors and a judge, to determine what security measures will be taken.
Earlier it was reported that France had begun  proceedings to extradite Noriega to Panama after the U.S. gave its consent. 
Noriega was extradited from the the United States to France in 2010 after completing a 20 years prison sentence.
In France he got another a seven-year sentence for laundering $3.1 million of the now defunct Medellin cartel led by the late Pablo Escobar.

Being imprisoned in Renacer,  will be luxury compared with the French prison currently holding him, and reputed to be one of the least hospitable in France.
In Panama, Noriega has received six sentences totaling over 67 years in prison following the murder of Hugo Spadafora guerrilla doctor and Major Moises Giroldi, the slaughter of Albrook, the detention of more, corruption and embezzlement.
However, constitutional lawyers, and Noriega's own legal team have said that he would only have to face 20 years in prison, thanks to the legal principle according to which the"law favorable to the accused should be applied retroactively" meaning
that the Criminal Code of 1982, in force at the date he  was tried and convicted when the maximum penalty at that time was 20 years (today 35).

Noriega is 76 years old.