Kidnapper 'won't be extradited' - Democratic Underground

dipsydoodle

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Tue Jun-23-09 04:11 PM
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Kidnapper 'won't be extradited'

Source: BBC News

Mexican President Felipe Calderon has said a French woman who was convicted of kidnapping will have to serve her 60-year sentence in Mexico.

The French government had been urging the Mexican authorities to extradite Florence Cassez, who has long pleaded her innocence.

But Mr Calderon said Mexican law must be upheld.

She was arrested in 2005 at a ranch near Mexico City where three kidnapping victims had been held for two months.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8115855.stm

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Tue Jun-23-09 05:13 PM
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1. This is a show trial for the Mexican people so they think people are actually-

doing something to stop the caudillos in the Mexican drug cartels.

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