France called for the release of the Bulgarian nurses on trial for intentional HIV infection in Libya, Agence France-Presse reported.
France, just like the other European Union countries gave its full support to the Bulgarians, the spokesperson of the French foreign ministry Jean-Baptiste Mattei said.
Mattei said Paris was participating actively in the humanitarian programme aimed at improving the conditions at the Benghazi children’s hospital, where the mass HIV infection occurred.
Agence France-Presse reported that the US has also called for the release of the Bulgarians and a Palestinian doctor on trial for the same charges.
On August 29 prosecutors called for confirmation of the Bulgarians’ death sentences. The nurses were sentenced to death but in the end of 2005 Libya’s Supreme Court ordered re-trial and overruled the previous verdict.
