Judges in Mexico have refused to release Frenchwoman Florence Cassez, who was serving a 60-year jail term for allegedly participating in a kidnapping ring. Next, the killing of a black high school student sparks a heated debate on race and Florida's lax self-defence laws. Finally, our reporters look at a new report which says the number of mosques in the US has nearly doubled in the past decade, as immigration from Muslim countries increases.
Judges in Mexico have refused to release French national Florence Cassez, who has spent six years in jail for gang-related crime and kidnapping. The 37-year-old is serving a 60-year sentence, although she insists her only connection to the gang was as the girlfriend of one of its members. The case has strained relations between Paris and Mexico City, and although she remains in prison, the Supreme Court has now agreed to re-examine her case, citing "irregularities".
A Mexican Supreme Court voted 3-2 against the release of Florence Cassez on Wednesday. The Frenchwoman, sentenced to 60 years for kidnapping in 2009, had appealed over an irregularity in her trial proceedings.
A Mexican Supreme Court will on Wednesday decide whether to release Frenchwoman Florence Cassez due to an irregularity in her trial proceedings. Cassez was sentenced to 60 years for kidnapping in 2009.
A Mexican Supreme Court justice will argue that Florence Cassez, a French woman sentenced to serve 60 years behind bars in Mexico for kidnapping, should be released because her rights were violated, according to a court opinion released Wednesday.
The unfolding nuclear disaster in Japan ignites a debate in the United States over the safety of nuclear energy. This as the American nuclear industry is starting to build the first new reactors in a generation.
And in Mexico, a documentary which exposes major flaws in the country's judicial system, has ruffled many feathers despite winning international awards.
The cultural Year of Mexico in France was officially called off. The event was supposed to showcase Mexican culture. But it has become impossible to organize it following Mexico’s decision to boycott the celebration. Nicolas Sarkozy angered the Mexican government after he said he wants to dedicate the cultural festival to Florence Cassez. Who's to blame for this fiasco?
Frenchwoman Florence Cassez, who is currently serving a 60-year prison sentence in Mexico on kidnapping charges, has appealed to the country's Supreme Court to overturn a Feb. 10 appellate court ruling which upheld the terms of her imprisonment.
Relations between France and Mexico take a turn for the worse over the Mexican government's refusal's to repatriate Florence Cassez.
one year on after that devastating earthquake, Chile's wine industry is still in recovery mode.
And finally why "to go where no man has gone been before" will no longer apply to the US space shuttle
FRENCH PAPERS, Wed., 16/2/2011: France's Foreign Minister is in hot soup again! Satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaîné reveals more details about Michèle Alliot-Marie's (or "MAM's") infamous holidays in Tunisia over the New Year. While Tunisia's youth were rising up against Ben Ali, the Foreign Minister's parents, who accompanied her there, were concluding business deals with a businessman "close to the fallen regime". Also, a diplomatic spat between France and Mexico...
