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French woman freed in Mexico home to hero's welcome

A Frenchwoman freed from Mexican jail after a court said police violated her rights by staging her arrest for kidnapping on national television, arrived in Paris Thursday to a hero's welcome.

Florence Cassez speaks tot he media on her arrival at Roissy airport in France on January 24, 2013. Cassez arrived on a flight from Mexico City with her father Bernard, a day after Mexico's Supreme Court voted for her release after seven years in prison in a case that strained Franco-Mexican ties.

A smiling Florence Cassez arrived on a flight from Mexico City with her father Bernard, a day after Mexico's Supreme Court voted for her release after seven years in prison in a case that strained Franco-Mexican ties.

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