How long will this charade of justice continue to go on?

The trial of Free took another bizarre turn when it became known that his lawyer, Gerardo Solis Barreto, returned home Friday evening after having been released by kidnappers.
Shortly after his release he told Free’s family over the phone about his ordeal. With a quivering voice, interrupted by long pauses, he told of having been abducted at gunpoint on Wednesday afternoon and having been taken to a location where he had been held incommunicado for three days. On Friday his captors instructed him to stop his defense of Free, making it clear to him with one simple movement that if he didn’t comply heads would roll.

At this moment we have no further information about the state of mr. Solis, but he is home, under police protection, recuperating from his days of capture. We are very happy for the end of his kidnapping and certainly hope that no more harm will come to mr. Solis, but we serious start to doubt that Free will have any chance of getting a fair trial in a state that seems to be ruled by kidnappers, inside and outside of state institutions. At first glance the idea seems to be farfetched, but not after carefully considering the fact that Free was whisked off to jail in a record time on trumped up charges and has since been held imprisoned, even though all evidence shows that he rightly defended himself from an attack by the very same people that accuse him of attacking them. In the mean time, Ivan Ferrat Mancera, the supposedly criticially wounded victim of Free’s attack, unable to work for at least a year according to the medical report needed to put Free legally away, can be seen walking happily through the streets of Cancun.

It has become clear to us that the Ferrat family wants Free in prison in order to criminalize him and protect their claim to insurance money for Ivan Ferrat’s medical costs resulting from his attack on Free. We are worried that the crime being committed against Free at this very moment will never be punished, and continue for as long as it will take the Ferrat Mancera’s to collect from the insurer. But even if all lawyers in Mexico would be kidnapped by the local mafia, we, family and friends of Free, will keep protesting the injustice done to him, until the day he will be freed.