Saturday, February 19, 2011

Case Break: Mexico will not apply the Strasbourg Convention

In a statement the Foreign Ministry, reiterated Mexico, Thursday, February 17, it will not apply in Florence Break the Strasbourg Convention on the transfer to their country of origin of those convicted. The French, who was sentenced to sixty years in prison in Mexico for complicity in kidnappings, and has always protested his innocence, has seen its last action before the Mexican court dismissed last week.

On Wednesday, the spokesman for the French government, Baroin, reporting on the council of ministers had stressed the request of France "that Mexico respects its signature" of the Strasbourg Convention. According to the spokesman of the government, Mr. Sarkozy also recalled "public commitment" of Mexican President Felipe Calderon, "to accept compliance with the signing of these international conventions".

According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, the implementation of the Strasbourg Convention "requires the consent of the sentencing State and the State of execution so that its provisions apply. In his statement, he recalled that in June 2009 after the creation of a binational commission created especially for the case of Florence Break, "the government of Mexico has concluded that conditions did not exist to allow consent to Transfer from Florence Break in France.

" The Mexican government does not want an escalation of diplomatic conflict with France about the case Cassez has yet clarified the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Lourdes Aranda. "We follow the timely response from the French government," she said Thursday, before the Mexican Senate.

"But we hope there will be no need to continue climbing," said Ms. Aranda. She warned however that the conflict would "go to where the French government wants it to go." Asked then Radioformula on the events surrounding the affair Break, Ms. Aranda said: "It is very difficult to predict, because we know there are other considerations that are not strictly bilateral for decision-making in France.

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