The "thriller" of Florence Cassez

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The French criminal Florence Cassez
The "thriller" of Florence Cassez
By: Carlos Damián December 14, 2010
The case of Cassez is a thriller full of traps
México. – This police novel exhibits the interest jungle of the involved persons, by and large with the contradictions in the one which have incurred accuses victims and the authorities. The chief of the band took the motive of Nextel cellular of Valeria to communicate it with hers mother, Laura Maya Tinajero Ortega. When they began to speak, the chief deprived the telephone to Valeria and warned to her to the mother: "we have kidnapped to hers daughter". They were four the members of the band. Their leader requested at the beginning a rescue of 333 thousand 333.33 dollars. Ended by accepting 12 thousand dollars. 5 of September, six days after hers kidnapping, Valeria it was freed to some blocks of hers house.

According to the report AFI/DGIP/PI/123075/05 and an enlarged statement of Valeria, the agents descended to the youth and continued to the Volvo until the car entered a house located in the kilometer 29 of that highway, corner with Cerrada Ahuacatitla, in the San Michael Topilejo colony. It was the Las Chinitas ranch, where was living Israel Vallarta Cisneros, the conductor of the Volvo that, finally resulted the gray silver car. Thus by chance, the AFI located to Israel Vallarta, presumed chief of the band of the Zodiac and bridegroom of Florence Cassez, French citizen sentenced to 60 years of prison by the kidnapping offenses, organized delinquency and by bringing of exclusive uses weapons of the army, and whose contingent movement to hers country based on treaty of Strasbourg is analyzed by a commission binational of Mexico and France. Of course. there would be freed to the few days since the offense was in Mexico to the other side of the sea.

To be imprisoned Israel Vallarta (IV) and Florence Cassez (FC) were bringing a white pickup truck 8 of December according to IV and the awoken of the 9 of December according to the agents of the AFI, she was carrying clothes and furniture to hers new department. Rose them to a Suburban Chevrolet with traffic enrollment 954-RDA. The abductor IV said, that in Las Chintas ranch had instructions to his band that "if it was not returning in a given time", these follower would kill to the plagiarized. The agents requested support of two commands of “rapid reaction". They returned to the ranch to 7:15 in the morning and IV opened them the iron gate with his keys and in a building located to the front of the right- side found the kidnapped three: Ezequiel Elizalde, Cristina Rios and the child Cristian Ramirez.

The witnesses
Ezequiel Elizalde declared that they kidnapped it the morning of the 4 of October of 2005. Two armed men entered to the Elimen billiard, property of his father Enrique Elizalde, and They were carried him what is in a gray Van Chevrolet, demand the abductors 133 thousand 333.33 dollars to release it. Concerning Cristina Rios Valadares expressed that kidnapped it together with hers husband Raul Ramirez Chavez, and the son of both, Cristian Hilario Ramirez Rios, in the morning of the 19 of October of 2005. Their abductors released to Raul so that procured money for the wife and son rescue: a million of dollars. 14 of February of 2006, the child identified the voice of FC as the person that prick to him blood and said to him "squeezes the arm" with” rare accent (…) as of not Mexican". A day after Cristina Rios remembered that she heard the voice of Florence "from the first safety house" when "was joking with the other keepers".

Ezequiel Elizalde is the only one of the kidnapped that from the first statement recognized the voice of Florence Cassez as the one voice of their abductors. He says that "it was speaking with foreign accent, of French origin, was dragging the "r". Elizalde comments that carried to him some sandwiches and that recommended to him be not made "the hero" neither to make "stupidities” because ” if not, we went to finish wrong". He reached to see it in spite of carrying a black Balaclava and black lens, since was showing part of hers “dyed blond hair".

There was a testimony more than incriminated FC: that of Leonardo Cortes Lopez of 29 years-age and merchant of vegetables and fruits that had a store "metallic on wheels" on the corner of the Norte 58-A and Oriente 91 streets in the Mexico City, very about domicile of Cristina Valladares, furthermore who was his costumer.
In the formal prison document that decreed the first judge of the case, Olga Sanchez Contreras, as well as in the penal sentence 198/2008 dictation by the second judge, Fermin Rivera, is granted value in proof of testimonies of the kidnappings, as well as "to other evidence". Between other is mentioned one of them: Florence lived 15 days that they were there the kidnapped, though she was using a cabin located to the fund of the ranch and the plagiarized was found in a located building almost front and to the right of the entry door.
In addition to agreement with the inventory of objects and requisitioned documents, the telephonic bills of the corresponding ranch to October and November of 2005 are to hers name. In his statement, Israel asserted that Margolis it is the only one that has the power and money to involve it in the kidnapping accusations that currently faces. He insisted on his innocence and requested protection for him and his family. Refer IV that a person in the facilities of the Siedo, he lifted it and beat it with the fists and he said to him: “he sends you a good day your favorite Jew. That already you know: that if speeches you die, you and your family too". (Revista Proceso, p.p. 7-11, April 5, 2009)