法国女绑匪墨西哥获刑60年

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法国政府对于墨西哥拒绝引渡一名女绑匪而表示失望。这名绑匪被判处在墨西哥服刑60年。墨西哥方面表示，拒绝引渡是因为不相信法国会给予女绑匪应有的惩罚。

这名绑匪佛罗伦斯·卡塞先前作为头目绑架了三名受害者，其中包括一名8岁儿童。卡塞曾拒绝承认自己是首领，但受害者指认了她。

The French government has expressed disappointment of Mexico's decision to make a French woman convicted of kidnapping serve a 60-year sentence in a Mexican jail. The Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said he was very upset at Mexico's refusal to allow the woman Florence Cassez to serve the sentence in France. Stephen Gibbs reports from Mexico City.

The case of Florence Cassez has long been controversial in both Mexico and France. She was arrested in 2005 at a ranch near Mexico City where three kidnapping victims, including an eight-year-old child, had been held for over two months. It later emerged that the arrest as seen by the public was in fact a reenactment staged by the police for the news media. Ms. Cassez has always said her only connection with the case was that she was the girlfriend of the man who's understood to have been the lead kidnaper. But her victims identified her, and said she took an active role in their abductions.

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