Iran has castigated on Monday, February 3, “non -constructive” remarks of the French president on the detention of two French people on Monday, February 3 for more than 1,000 days and a third for more than two years in Iran. Friday, Emmanuel Macron denounced the “unworthy and arbitrary detention” of the three French nationals, calling them “hostages”, and demanded their release.
On Monday, the spokesperson for Iranian diplomacy, Emsaïl Baghai, criticized the French head of state for this declaration, claiming: “The decisions made in our (judicial) system were in accordance with the law”. “We do not think that such comments are useful or constructive […] And they do not help appease relations between the two countries, “he said at a press conference.
Cécile Kohler, 40, was arrested on May 7, 2022, on the last day of a tourist trip to Iran, where the authorities accused him of espionage. Jacques Paris, Cécile Kohler’s companion, was arrested at the same time as she, while Olivier Rondeau, detained for more than two years, came out of anonymity in early January.
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Cécile Kohler “extremely weakened”
Another Frenchman, Louis Arnaud, 36 -year -old consultant, was arrested in September 2022 in Tehran, when the demonstrations of fall 2022 began, triggered by the death in detention of Mahsa Amini, a young Kurdish Iranian arrested for breaking the strict dress code imposed on women. He was released in June 2024.
Cécile Kohler’s family asked President Macron on Friday to intervene to obtain his release during a rally in her small town in Alsace, in the east of France. “It has been 1,000 days that you were taken hostage. Why?” Launched Cécile Kohler’s mother, Mireille Kohler, speaking to some 300 people gathered in front of the town hall of Soultz, commune of 7,000 inhabitants near Mulhouse.
According to the Iranian and Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, who was imprisoned in Evin prison, Cécile Kohler is “extremely weakened”. “Finding yourself three years like her, without being able to move, without being able to get some fresh air, it can be fatal to her,” said Narges Mohammadi during an exit permission in early January.