The controversial Vallarta case, the television and judicial setup that in 2005 accused the couple formed by the French Florence Cassez and the Mexican Israel Vallarta of kidnapping, returns to streaming platforms: this time with Belinda as the protagonist of a miniseries produced by Amazon Prime Video, still without a release date in Mexico.
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The same actress announced the news on her social networks and shared an image where she appears characterized as the French citizen who spent eight years in prison in Mexico before obtaining her freedom: “Very soon I will fulfill one of the most important dreams of my career: to play Florence Cassez in a miniseries inspired by one of the most shocking cases of recent decades, a true story that shocked an entire nation and transcended borders,” Belinda wrote on Instagram.
Although the streaming giant avoided sharing more details about the production during Prime Video Presents Latin America, the event where it announces its upcoming releases in the region, the actress thanked being part of the project that will have Daniel Krauze as head writer and will be directed by Humberto Hinojosa. “From day one I have put all my heart into this project and I hope that when the time comes, I can move you as much as it has moved us to create it,” she said.
The Prime Video production, still without a title or official release date, will be the second in four years to bring the convoluted judicial case to the screens. In 2022, Netflix released The Cassez-Vallarta Case: A Criminal Novel, a docuseries based on the award-winning investigation of the same name by Jorge Volpi with interviews with Florence Cassez herself and the presidents of Mexico and France, Felipe Calderón and Nicolas Sarkozy, who starred in a bilateral crisis after the Mexican government denied the French request to repatriate Cassez.
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Vallarta and Cassez were arrested on December 8, 2005, and a day later were forced to participate in a televised setup broadcast live on the main morning newscasts simulating the arrest of a group of kidnappers, the Zodiac gang, led by themselves. It was the beginning of a convoluted story of police abuses, torture, creation of witnesses, and planted evidence, a demonstration of the cracks in the Mexican judicial system and the amalgamation between political power and the media at its service.
While Cassez obtained her freedom in 2013 when the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation ruled that the authorities violated due process and her consular rights, Vallarta was released from prison in August 2025 after 19 years without a sentence, until a new judge issued an acquittal ruling for lack of evidence for his conviction.
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