France was seeking "a possible transfer" of the convicted terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui from the United States, the French Foreign Ministry said Thursday.

The two countries "are linked by two conventions on the transfer of convicted persons," said a spokesman for the ministry, Jean-Baptiste Mattei.

"A possible transfer of Mr. Zacarias Moussaoui could be examined within this framework," he said.

The French Foreign Ministry came to intervene one day after a U.S. jury

sentenced Moussaoui to a life-long jail term for his role in the deadliest Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist assault in U.S. history.

Patrick Baudouin, the lawyer of Moussaoui's mother, said he had asked French officials "to intervene with American authorities to demand that Moussaoui serve his sentence in a French prison."

Moussaoui, 37, a Frenchman of Moroccan descent, is the first person to be convicted in the United States for his involvement in the Sept. 11 terror attacks in 2001, which killed nearly 3,000 people.

Source: Xinhua