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Mexico's ambassador in Paris walked out of a meeting in the French senate when the matter of kidnapper Florence Cassez was again brought-up.
"Mexico cannot tolerate that judicial affairs be repeatedly dragged into (other, separate matters)."
Cassez recently lost her final appeal in a 60-year jail sentence in Mexico.
Sarkozy has described Cassez as a victim of injustice and demanded she be moved to French custody on humanitarian grounds.
Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes, a former ambassador to France, describes Sarkozy of behaving like a "dictator of a banana republic" in mixing cultural relations with political, judicial and diplomatic ones.
Some in France wonder why Sarkozy has adopted her as a cause célèbre when there are 2,500 other French prisoners in jail abroad, including at least one facing imminent execution.
