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The current Minister-President of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, Arturo Zaldívar, revealed that he and his family were held at gunpoint by AFI agents. They sought to stop the project which aimed to grant protection and release to Florence Cassez. (PHOTO: DANIEL AUGUSTO/CUARTOSCURO)
The premiere of the documentary series on the platform diffusion Netflix, The Cassez-Vallarta Affair: A Detective Novelrevealed various unknown episodes in the case of the French citizen Florence Cassez and the Mexican Israel Vallarta.
Both they were charged with kidnapping and which apprehension (in December 2005) it happened a day before the staging for cameras Televisa and TV Azteca by agents of the time Federal Investigation Agency (AFI) headed by Genaro García Luna -who eventually became the former president's powerful public security secretary Felipe Calderon - and who is today prisoner in the United States accused of links to Drug trafficespecially with the Sinaloa Cartel.
The documentary - based on the book a crime novel de Jorge Volpi- What analyzes everything that happened around one of the most controversial cases in the Mexican judicial system and which was about to cause the rupture of relations between Mexico and Francea interviews of all the protagonists of the story, including Florence Breakthat of the former president Felipe Calderón; of the former French president, Nicolas Sarkozy and the Minister of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, Arturo Zaldivar, here offered to grant 'pure and pure' protection to Cassez and release her for irregularities in his detention and judicial process.
This is how Florence Cassez was shown in the television montage of her arrest. (Picture: screenshot)
The revelations of Zaldívar Lelo de Larrea in the Netflix documentary have been controversial since, he assured, he was subjected to great pressure, and was even threatened with long guns by federal agents while traveling with his family on the highway; with the intention that his project to grant protection Break -presented March 7, 2012- has not been approved.
« We were intercepted, I was going with my family on the weekend in my vehicle, by three federal police vans, where the police came out of the van with long guns and pointed them at me for 5 or 10 minutes.; but not satisfied they entered my house with the idea that they were going to find something there that could harm me”, recalled who is today the Minister President of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN).
According to Zaldivar, the intimidations took place after he presented his plan to release Cassez, which was only approved by two ministers. Because it required at least three votes, the project was abandoned.
The current president of the country's highest court assured that "beyond the legal, there was a political intention of the government of Felipe Calderón that this person (Break) be confirmed in his sentence.
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It was until 23th January 2013 -once the government of Felipe Calderón ended and Enrique Peña Nieto was already president- that a new project prepared by Olga Sánchez Cordero (former Secretary of the Interior and current President of the Senate of the Republic) which has reached three votes for and two against, since it was determined that there was no due process, so Cassez was released immediatelyeven if Israel Vallarta remains imprisoned without conviction let alone without a trial.
In the documentary, the former president Felipe Calderón gave his version of events emphasizing the responsibility of Cassez while rejected what was said by Arturo Zaldívar saying they were revealed more than 10 years after the fact. However, journalistic texts indicate that the minister has denounced the pressures of the Calderón government since 2013.
However, it was not the first pressure of the government of Felipe Calderón against Arturo Zaldívar.
It must be remembered that Last February, Arturo Zaldívar denounced that the former president had pressured him to modify the draft sentence on the ABC Nursery affair. to protect Marguerite Zavala and his family.
The anecdote was told during the presentation of his book “10 years of rights. Jurisprudential autobiography", in which Zaldívar Lelo de Larrea assured that the then Secretary of the Interior, Mount Fernando Gomezvisited him to deliver a message from the presidency: they did not support his projectsince among the officials of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS) have indicated, there were relatives of the first lady.
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“He went to see me at my office and we talked for a good number of hours (…) the tone of voice rose more and more, until we finally shouted. At one point the secretary said to me: 'The president says we don't support you for this'», recalls Zaldívar, who at the time he replied to the president that he had appointed a minister, not a secretary of stateit would therefore not conform to the order.
Likewise, he recalled that on Wednesday evening he had signed two copies of the draft, given them to his personal secretary and his presentation coordinator to ask them to keep them locked up and present them to the press in their entirety at the case the next day he did not arrive in court.
However, the tension didn't stop therebecause once the project is published, received threats from some of his fellow ministerswarnings of all kinds, until the end of the discussion and the debate, which he supported despite the insistent attacks.
Regardless of whether they "flipped" his premise, he said he was proud of the moment because "they won the vote, they even voted against them, but they didn't win the debate or win the vote. process of history”. he said.
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