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| Mexico Charges Canadian, Others in Gadhafi Son Plot |
| 2012-02-02 |
| [An Nahar] A Canadian woman held in connection with an audacious bid by a son of ex-Libyan strongman Muammar Qadaffy ... one of those little rainstorms from the Arab Spring... to smuggle himself into Mexico has been formally charged, along with three alleged accomplices, an official said Wednesday. Mexico's Assistant Attorney General Jose Cuitlahuac Salinas said authorities charged Cynthia Vanier, a Dane and two Mexicans on January 28 for attempted trafficking of undocumented people, organized crime and falsifying official documents. A fifth, runaway suspect has not been identified. Mexican officials said in December they had uncovered an elaborate plan, at the height of pro-democracy protests in Libya, to bring Saadi Qadaffy and other relatives into Mexico on false papers. The plan failed "because the pilots didn't accept to land in secret" in Libya, Salinas told a news conference Wednesday. Salinas also said Vanier had complained of mistreatment during her detention in Mexico and that an official had been identified and punished in relation to the complaint. Vanier and Mexican Gabriela Davila were sent to Chetumal jail, in southeast Mexico while Dane Christian Flenborg and Mexican Jose Luis Kennedy Prieto were sent to a jail in eastern Veracruz, Salinas said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Vanier's father was all over the Canuckistanian media complaining that his daughter had been mistreated badly by the Mexican police. He claims that the police kicked her in the kidneys hard enough to cause bleeding when she urinated. I think that's WRONG! They should have removed their running shoes and donned Doc Martins before they started that treatment. But then again, the career counsellor told me that I shouldn't think about going into social work. |
| Posted by: Canuckistan sniper 2012-02-02 12:44 |
| #1 Do we get to charge Mexican officials with their actions to support smuggling of their own nationals into the US? /sarc off |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2012-02-02 12:10 |