His acquittal was pronounced on Thursday evening, said interior minister Rosa Icela Rodríguez.
“A judge decided to release him,” said Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum during a press conference on Friday morning. “We cannot forget how the arrest went,” she added, qualifying her broadcast live at the time of “television editing”.
Ms. Sheinbaum attributed the responsibility of this operation to Genaro García Luna, then director of the Federal Investigation Agency and future Minister of Public Security in Mexico, currently behind bars in the United States for her links with the powerful Cartel of Sinaloa.
Apprehended at the same time as him in 2005, Florence Cassez had been released in 2013 after providing proof that there had been procedural vices. The Supreme Court of Mexico had then determined that she and her friend were arrested and then taken to a farm where he had been “staged their arrest”, according to a summary of the judgment.
The Frenchwoman claims that she was captured on a road south of Mexico City, then taken to the Ranch “Las Chinitas”, where her arrest would then have been simulated in front of several media.
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