Saif al-Islam added that their release from eight years' jail was in part thanks to French readiness to push for much more foreign support for the Libyan health sector than European countries had previously offered, Newsweek magazine reported.
The medics, convicted of deliberately infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV, were freed on July 24 after a deal between Tripoli and the European Union on medical support and political links ended their ordeal.
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