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Weekly Report - 31 January 2013 (WR-13-04)

MEXICO: Cassez case puts spotlight on judicial reform

President Enrique Peña Nieto will need to advance with a judicial reform as quickly as he did his seminal education reform if he is to placate the Mexican public which reacted with widespread consternation to a decision by the country’s supreme court last week to release Florence Cassez, a Frenchwoman imprisoned in 2005 for kidnapping. Cassez was feted upon her return to France, receiving red-carpet treatment like a homecoming heroine by the French President François Hollande. The court pointedly did not declare her innocence; rather it ruled that she was the victim of some egregious procedural irregularities in the process that led to her conviction. The public is clamouring for profound judicial reform, promised by Peña Nieto in his ‘Pact for Mexico’, to prevent a recurrence of such events.

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