Republished by lucio from Associated Press
Florence Cassez, a
Frenchwoman who became a cause celebre in her country, after she was jailed for
kidnapping in Mexico, is suing a former Mexican president among other former officials
and a major TV network, her lawyer said Monday.
Jose Patino Hurtado, Cassez's
attorney in Mexico, told Noticias MVS radio that the civil suit filed on Friday
seeks $36 million for suffering and "moral damage."
The lawsuit seeks
"above all to vindicate Florence Cassez, which is the most important
thing," Patino said in an interview with Noticias MVS host Carmen
Aristegui.
It names ex-President
Felipe Calderon, former Public Safety Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna and other
officials, as well as the Televisa TV network and journalists including the prominent
anchor Carlos Loret de Mola.
A Televisa spokesman
said the company had no immediate comment. Calderon called the lawsuit
"absurd" in an interview with journalist Joaquin Lopez Doriga on
Radio Formula.
Cassez was arrested in
2005 and sentenced to 60 years on charges of aiding a kidnapping ring allegedly
led by her Mexican boyfriend, in a case that soured relations between Paris and
Mexico City.
She acknowledged living
with the boyfriend at a ranch where kidnap victims were being held, but professed
her innocence, saying she was unaware of their presence. One victim identified
her as a kidnapper, but by voice only rather than by sight.
In January 2013 the
Supreme Court overturned Cassez's conviction due to procedural and rights
violations. A day after Cassez was arrested, police had forced her to take part
in a staged raid on the ranch purportedly to rescue hostages and arrest
suspects. It was covered by the media and broadcast on television.
"They knew the
damage they would cause, and they prefabricated everything," Patino
Hurtado said Monday.
After Cassez's release,
the Interior Department said it would instruct Federal Police to read suspects
their rights when they are detained.
She returned to a
hero's welcome in France, but many in Mexico were indignant that a woman they
believed to be a kidnapper had gone free.
Fucking rat took her long enough to come up with the bribe money hope the mexican women had their way with that hoe In jail!
ReplyDeleteI hope so too!
DeleteGood Luck! haha
ReplyDeleteHates how almost all criminals are freed due to procedural violations.
ReplyDeleteHow much did it cost her. Innocent or guilty u always pay
ReplyDeleteShe is innocent its not her fault her boyfriend would kidnap ppl
ReplyDeleteShe was the bait, her boyfriend was the trap. She is an "accomplice" to crime, not a poor innocent white girl who happens to find herself unknowingly sleeping with a hardened criminal. She enjoyed life on the wild side, but is unwilling to accept the consequences when the party is over. She deserves to rot in a filthy prison cell!
DeleteExactly. I don't understand how people always get mad at mexico for being corrupt but then once they do their job and arrest someone who was an obivous accomplice everyone looses their mind and begins to say mexico did wrong. Why because she's french? Does that give her immunity? Everyone will always try to justify their actions with words, but none the less their actions caused them to break the law, so they must pay the consequence.
DeleteThere was so much bungling and ineptitude from both the police & the substandard judicial system that Mexico was forced to let her go...
ReplyDeleteFuck this bit@#. She was an accomplice in all those kid napings. She would act like a ditch white girl and go look for business men snd her boyfriend and his crew would extort them for money. Now she wants to extort the Mexican president! Lol
ReplyDeleteShe needs to just be happy a rival gang didn't decapitate her and her criminal boyfriend. "Hey you have your head, now use it. Stay the hell out of Mexico!" Down there playing with fire and still playing with fire. Get a job move on. She expects Mexico to ccomply. Good luck! They will simply read the law that was written after this lawsuit, statint they are immune from civil suits. Some corrupt official is putting it on the books dated the year of 2000.
ReplyDeleteNot her fault . She thought her boyfriend was a mild mannered kinder garden teacher . He was another person when he went to the next room to torcher the people in there . As far as that French accent they heard . It could have been any French woman . There explained away
ReplyDelete@ 6:19 Good answer. That's about as resonable an explanation as Mexico's government gives to the people, especially when they want to close a case...LOL
DeleteWhether she was guilty or not I like the fact shes suing Mexico which brings more international attention to them and maybe Mexico will start being a little more careful about theTHINGS that they DO,
DeleteJe ne sais rien. Mon copain m'a dit qu'il était un enseignant de maternelle. Hey !! Pourquoi êtes-vous couper ma tête ???
DeleteImpunity was sought by the guilty mexican government officers to be the law, because they are GUILTY!!!
ReplyDelete--surprise, big deal, it will be fine when fecal, genaro garcia luna and his boss carlos slim helu get investigated, indicted and convicted, but somebody had to try on the calderonato..
Just put a little bit of pressure on her, n she will run like the French always do, Viva Le Amor!!!
ReplyDeleteFreedom fries anyone?
ReplyDelete36 million dollars or pesos...
ReplyDeleteThe point is keep check mating the fucking mexican government and former "aithorities" until they are known all over the world for the corrupt cocksuckers they are
Everyone calm the fuck down!
ReplyDeleteAll of this came down to France telling Mexico "Fucking release her or else"
We all know this but somehow we like to pretend mexico has a say when dealing with world powers and their citizens.
Just like they begged for maximillian right & what did Mexico do? They shot him. Mexico doesn't care.
DeleteFrance is not a world power(they have a economic lroblem), its not the 19th century(when they would pilage other countries wealth). Them smelly's are already invaded by muslims who terrorise them because they cant defend them selfs.
ReplyDeleteAngel aguirre rivero, studied in the colegio frances, and maybe in france, no remember clearly, but the mexican gendarmeria that graduated, went to france for their training, so mexico and france are not in bad terms, amd mexico will pay the 36 million dollars to pena nieto, pena nieto will give florence 36 pesos and her boyfriend, and maybe a plane ticket to france, she is pretty, unlike the russian unclean unshaved...ooops!!! french women are famous because they don't shave either... french men never bathe and they eat frogs, fabricate communist leaders like ho-chi-minh and adore el che guevara, their only saving grace besides their pretty women, vive la france!!!
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