Libyans refuse more compensation for bombed French airliner

Families of victims of the 1989 bombing of a French airliner returned from Libya saying that negotiations had failed to win a compensation package on par with the €2.5bn Lockerbie settlement.

With a UN showdown brewing, foreign minister Dominique de Villepin met with representatives of the families immediately after their return to Paris yesterday and expressed his “full support for their action”, the ministry said in a statement.