PARIS, March 2 (Xinhuanet) -- The French prosecutor's office in the northeastern Paris suburb of Bobigny opened Thursday an official inquiry into allegations that the CIA secretly transited detained terrorism suspects through its territory, officials said.

    The International Federation for Human Rights and the League of Human Rights lodged a lawsuit in Dec. 21, claiming that a Gulfstream III jet arriving at Bourget airport from the Norwegian capital Oslo on Jan. 20, 2005 broke laws on arbitrary detention, sequestration and torture, and violated Geneva Conventions rules on the treatment of prisoners of war.

    It was also spotted 10 times in Canada and six times at Guantanamo, the U.S. military base in Cuba which is holding hundreds of suspects picked up in President George W. Bush's "war on terror".

    The lawsuit aims to verify whether the aircraft linked in reports to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and, if so, what companies or bodies might have helped it, The French Le Figaro newspaper said.

    According to the newspaper, another suspected CIA aircraft Learjet landed at Brest-Guipavas, in western France on March 31, 2002 from Keflavik in Iceland and that subsequently left for Turkey.

    "In all likelihood these planes had detainees on board, about whom we do not know whether they were taken from or transported from the Guantanamo base, or whether they are people who were purely and simply abducted and sequestered on European territory or elsewhere and transported to secret detention center on European territory or elsewhere," the lawsuit said.

    The authors of the lawsuit said that it was "improbable that the American embassy in France, French Interior Ministry and Foreign Ministry had not been warned of these flights. Enditem