Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega arrived in France on Tuesday to face money laundering charges after being extradited from the United States.

A new legal battle will now begin for the former strongman, who was ousted in a U.S. invasion in 1989 and went on to spend years in a prison outside Miami for 태안출장마사지 drug racketeering.

Noriega arrived in Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport Tuesday morning, according to a judicial official who was not authorized to be named. He came on a direct flight from Miami.

Noriega will face a prosecutor to hear the French charges, and then see a judge in Paris who will determine whether he should be jailed pending an eventual trial, said Noriega’s lawyer Yves Leberquier.

Justice Ministry spokesman Guillaume Didier said Noriega could go on trial within two months.

On Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton signed a so-called surrender warrant for Noriega after a federal judge in Miami lifted a stay blocking the extradition last month.

French authorities claim Noriega laundered some $3 million in drug proceeds by purchasing luxury apartments in Paris. Noriega was convicted in absentia, but France agreed to give him a new trial if he was extradited.

One of Noriega’s lawyers in the U.S. said he had asked Clinton in a letter to reconsider sending him to Panama, which also has an outstanding request for the former dictator’s extradition. He was convicted in Panama in absentia and sentenced to 60 years in prison on charges of embezzlement, corruption and murdering opponents.

“Panama is terrified that he’ll return, even though all he would do is sit on his porch and play with his grandchildren,” lawyer Frank Rubino said. “He knows where the skeletons are buried.”

Panama’s foreign minister, Juan Carlos Varela, told reporters that the United States “made the sovereign decision to send him to France, and we respect that decision.”

“That does not mean that Panama is not going to insist by legal and diplomatic means on having Noriega return to this country to serve the sentences handed down by Panamanian courts,” Varela added.

Noriega was ousted as Panama’s leader and put on trial following a 1989 U.S. military invasion ordered by President George H.W. Bush. Noriega was brought to Miami and was convicted of drug racketeering and related charges in 1992.

Sandra Noriega, one of the former dictator’s three daughters, called Noriega’s extradition to France “a violation of his rights as a citizen, and a failing by the (Panamanian) government, which is supposed to protect its citizens.”

Federal judges and the U.S. Supreme Court turned away Noriega’s claims that the Geneva Conventions treaties regarding prisoners of war require him to be returned to Panama. Noriega was declared a POW after his 1992 drug conviction by a Miami federal judge.

Noriega, believed to be in his 70s, was Panama’s longtime intelligence chief before he took power in 1982. He had been considered a valued CIA asset for years, but as a ruler he joined forces with drug traffickers and was implicated in the death of a political opponent.