66-year-old eksofficer is accused in Argentina of being behind the torture and murder of students under the military regime.

the France show on Sunday evening in an argentinian to his native country to be tried in court accused of so behind the torture and a young student's disappearance during the military regime in the 1980s.

It illuminates the sources of law, and it is confirmed to the news agency Reuters by a spokesperson of the French ministry of justice.

The 66-year-old former police officer Mario Sandoval was arrested Wednesday at his home near Paris. It was after that the French authorities gave the final approval to hand over increasing the argentinian.

It ended an eight-year long legal tug-of-war.

Sandoval will on Sunday evening be taken on board an airliner from Air France heading for Buenos Aires, says the sources.

Sandoval has been wanted in Argentina for the abduction of the students of architecture Hernan Abriata in 1985. Abriatas equal has never been found.

Argentina says it has several witnesses that can attest to the Sandovals connection to the killing of the students.

Abriata was led to the navy's notoriously infamous military school Esma. It is estimated that 5000 people were held captive here and subjected to torture after the military coup in 1976.

Many of the prisoners were murdered by putting them on board military aircraft and throwing them out on the open sea or the river Plata. It was known as "the dirty war".

/ritzau/AFP