Florence Cassez: who is her ex-husband met in detention with whom she had a daughter?

She said “yes” to him on July 20, 2013 in Malo-les-Bains. Florence Break married Fausto Avilla, just six months after being released from Mexican jails. The young Frenchwoman from Béthune had then very quickly settled in Annecy to trying to get on with life. She had just lived through a veritable nightmare when she found herself at the heart of one of Mexico’s most controversial criminal cases. Florence Cassez spent 2,603 ​​days behind bars in the women’s prison in Tepepan, south of Mexico City, before being finally released on January 23, 2013 following a decision by the Supreme Court for a procedural violation.

Fausto Avilla was a member of the Florence Cassez support committee

Mexican refugee in France for fifteen years, Fausto Avilla was a member of the ex-prisoner’s support committee during his seven years in prison. Together they gave birth to a little girl named Fleurin February 2015. “The only one I would keep if I had to start all over again”said Florence Cassez about her daughter in an interview with Paris Match. But the couple ended up divorcing the next year. Florence Cassez is therefore returned to her parents in Dunkirk, where she lives with her daughter in an apartment that she bought.

On the occasion of the release of the Nextflix documentary series “Defendants : the Florence Cassez affair”, the 47-year-old mother said, without spreading out, that her ex-husband and father of her daughter was no longer in this world. “I have to support ourselves, two years ago, in June 2020, Fleur lost her dad”revealed the single mother in the columns of Paris Match. Florence Cassez now only hasonly one reason to live : “I fight every day to be well, to be positive, to overcome the difficulties by telling myself that the worst is behind me and keeping in mind my priority: the well-being of my daughter.”