“A Mexican Supreme Court panel has voted not to free a French woman who says she was unjustly sentenced to 60 years in prison for kidnapping in a case that has put Mexico’s troubled justice system on trial and become a cause celebre in France.  The case of Florence Cassez has strained relations between the countries and it is also the centre of a vigorous debate between Mexicans who say she was abused by the criminal justice system and those who say setting her free would only reinforce a sense that crimes such as kidnapping go unpunished.  French President Nicolas Sarkozy has repeatedly called for Cassez to be freed”

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