✔️ 2022-09-03 07:04:19 – Paris/France.
at some point of The Cassez-Vallarta Affair: A Detective Novel (Mexico, France, 2022), journalist Héctor De Mauleón makes the perfect summary of this plot full of edges and contradictory versions: “What is in this file prevents us from concluding (…) there is no way to tell if (Cassez and Vallarta) are innocent or guilty.
What is the point of exploring this affair again, which began with the famous montage of December 9, 2005, which continued with the admission of Genaro García Luna (then director of AFI) that it was a recreation "at the request of the media", and which reached its climax with the release of Cassez, not thanks to former President Sarkozy, but to Mexican justice in an unexpected gesture by the President of the Supreme Court of Justice, Arturo Zaldivar?
Simple: This case shows, like probably no other, the rottenness of the Mexican justice system, a diagnosis that is as correct today as it was under the administrations of Fox, Calderón and Peña.
With a screenplay by Alejandro Gerber (Marie Felix, Coliseum) based on the homonymous novel by Jorge Volpi (Alfaguara Prize 2018), director Gerardo Naranjo (i am your fan, run out of ball) makes his debut as a documentary filmmaker by making an enormous effort not only to explain this labyrinthine affair full of corruptions, contradictions and improbable turns, but he does so with the firm conviction of confronting the opinions of the protagonists through current testimonies.
From victims of kidnappings (who still don't get justice), to Florence Cassez herself (from France and with 45 years of trailer), passing by Carlos Loret (relentlessly pointed out by the current regime as an accomplice) and even the former Mexican president himself, Felipe Calderón and his French counterpart, Nicólás Sarkozy. Naranjo imprints good pace and drama on its story through five episodes, barely enough to expose the case.
This documentary will serve as further proof that "it's Calderón's fault", but the truth is that if this Netflix series shows anything, it's that the case was born political and continues to be political. It is so even now, when President López Obrador flirts with the idea of releasing Israel Vallarta – imprisoned and without conviction since 2005 – but condemns the attempt to abolish pretrial detention, which would disable the political use of “ bringing justice ". . » .
And this is the only possible conclusion: at the time as at the present time, justice is used as a weapon, not as an instrument to arrive at the truth and punish the guilty. As the writer Paul Valéry said (quoted at the beginning of Volpi's book): “The mixture of true and false is enormously more toxic than pure lies.
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SOURCE: Reviews News
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