I’m going to talk about the case Florence Cassez which / who is an extract from. The New York time . This article was written By KATRIN BENNHOLD and was Published on February the 15, 2011 .

Ms. Cassez was arrested on Dec. 8, 2005, with her Mexican boyfriend at a ranch near Mexico City where three people, including a young boy, were being held hostage.
She says she didn’t know there were hostages at the ranch and has denied that her boyfriend was involved in a kidnapping . Her boyfriend, Israel Vallarta, who confessed to the crime has been no sentenced because he was . tortured during his confession. .

Two of the victims rescued after Ms. Cassez’s arrest identified her as one of the kidnapping gang. But her Mexican lawyer, Agustín Acosta, said that their initial statements never identified her, and that they identified her only by her accent after the authorities admitted a couple of months later to staging the raid.

Her conviction ( condamnation ) prompted outrage in France after it said that the Mexican police had staged ( mis en scéne ) a televised raid of the ranch in which officers rescue the kidnapping victims and arrest Ms. Cassez and a Mexican man. The office of Mexico’s attorney general ( bureau du procureur général ) later said that Ms. Cassez had actually been detained ( retenu ) a day earlier.

So with this event , there is Tensions between France and Mexico and then complicated relations just as a symbolic yearlong celebration of friendship is coming .
The implications go far beyond a cultural festival . France, which currently presides over the Group of 20 advanced and emerging economies . Until then, France has ambitious plans for financial reforms and is hoping for Mexican support .

Nicolas Sarkozy said he would dedicate the “Year of Mexico in France” to Florence Cassez, who lost her final appeal in Mexico last week.
The celebration wich started the 3. Feb were boycott by Mexico but it was unclear how .
But what is