Mexico frees Frenchwoman jailed for kidnapping

A Frenchwoman freed from a Mexican jail after a court said police violated her rights by staging her arrest for kidnapping on national television, has returned to Paris to a hero’s welcome.

Florence Cassez, who was arrested in 2005 and convicted of helping her Mexican then-boyfriend run a kidnapping gang, took a flight from Mexico City with her father Bernard, hours after the Supreme Court voted for her immediate release after seven years in prison in a case that strained Franco- Mexican relations.