BULGARIAN MEDICS TOUCH HOME SOIL

Politics | July 24, 2007, Tuesday // 00:00
Bulgaria: BULGARIAN MEDICS TOUCH HOME SOIL The five Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian doctor landed at Sofia Airport at 9.55 a.m. on Tuesday. Photo by Yuliana Nikolova (Sofia Photo Agency)

The five Bulgarian nurses, Doctor Zdravko Georgiev and the Palestinian Ashraf landed at 9.55 a.m. on Tuesday at Sofia Airport, enjoying the end of their eight-year-long ordeal.

The seven medics are accompanied by France's first lady Cecilia Sarkozy and the EU's External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner, who played an important role in the final stage of wrapping up the deal on Bulgarians' return home.

Thousands of people, relatives and officials welcomed the French governmental plane, which carried the seven medics.

The five nurses, the Palestinian doctor and doctor Zdravko Georgiev were let to leave Libya in the early hours of Tuesday, where they were jailed for more than eight years over accusations for the deliberate infection of 426 Libyan children with HIV.

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