The general is going back to the clink:

Mr. Noriega, 76, was found guilty by the 11th chamber of the Tribunal Correctionnel de Paris, a spokesman for the prosecutor’s office said. The tribunal also ordered Mr. Noriega to forfeit about $2.9 million that had been frozen in his French bank accounts.
The prosecutor in the case, Michel Maes, had sought a 10-year prison term.
In 1999, Mr. Noriega was convicted in absentia of laundering $3 million in illicit funds for the Medellin drug cartel through international banks and into French accounts. The conviction Wednesday came as he was retried on the same charge after his April extradition from Miami, where he had been held pending extradition after serving 15 years of a 30-year sentence in the United States.
Olivier Metzner, a lawyer for Mr. Noriega, declined to comment on Wednesday. His lawyers have argued that because of ill health, Mr. Noriega would likely end his life behind bars if he were given a long sentence. The defense has 10 days to appeal.
But Antonin Levy, another lawyer for Mr. Noriega, was quoted by The Associated Press as saying that the 32 months Mr. Noriega spent waiting for extradition in Miami would count toward his French sentence, meaning he could be up for parole within a year.