Paris - Libya has transferred funds to France to compensate victims of the 1989 mid-air bombing of a DC-10 UTA airliner, the French Foreign Ministry said yesterday in a move expected to open the way to normalisation of bilateral ties.
The ministry gave no figure for the compensation but diplomatic sources said Libya had transferred £24 million. A French court earlier this year sentenced in absentia six suspected Libyan agents to life imprisonment for the bombing of the airliner.