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Florence Cassez embraces her mother Charlotte Cassez, as French Minister for Foreign Affairs Laurent Fabius looks on, upon her arrival in Paris on Jan. 24.
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French national Florence Cassez listens to her lawyer behind bars on Jan. 22, 2008 in Mexico City. Mexico's Supreme Court ordered yesterday, the immediate release of Cassez serving 60 years in prison for kidnapping, ruling that authorities had violated her legal rights.
Mexico's Supreme Court ordered the immediate release of Florence Cassez, a 38-year-old French woman who had been sentenced to 60 years in jail for kidnapping and other crimes. The court ended the seven-year Mexican prison ordeal by ruling yesterday that there were serious irregularities in the way the case was handled, including a failure to grant Cassez due process.
Reuters reported, Charlotte Cassez, her mother, told French television, "It's an explosion of joy. It's wonderful."
"It's not far from being the best day of my life. We've been waiting for so long," she said after hearing about her daughter's release. "She deserves it. She is innocent and has fought to prove that. It's a victory for her." Continue reading article.
-- Reuters, European Pressphotos Agency
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I don't even know if they even know what the hell they're even doing down there....
Florence Cassez is a criminal who was living in Mexico and with a group of other kidnappers was enjoying the high life by kidnapping people and living off the ransom money. Cassez deserves 60yrs and more for the crimes she committed in Mexico and this act of letting her go free is just the beginning of a corrupt justice system that started with the new President. only 6 years and we will be free of the worst president every choosen in Mexico
So wait she is blamed for those crimes and they believed it... Wow no crap something was wrong with the case but to take seven years to figure that out is just idiotic entirely.
Man,
This explains their military, there space program etc.....
It just shows that you can receive justice if you are willing to wait for it. As one who has lived and worked in Mexico for years, the way to handle the justice system is to pay the bribes and get on with your life. This woman and her family obviously didn't pay the required amount to secure justice for her and she paid the price. She would have saved herself 7 yrs of hell had she just paid up!