Doubt is lifted on the fate of Cécile Kohler and her companion Jacques Paris, which we have been without news since the recent Israeli strike on their prison. The two French people, detained in Iran for three years, received the visit of a French diplomat on Tuesday, announced the Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean-Noël Barrot. “We obtained, after having exerted a very strong pressure on the Iranian authorities, a visit today [mardi] From our business manager in Iran, “said the minister before the National Assembly, without specifying where this visit was held.
Evine prison, where the two French people were detained until recently, was struck by Israel on June 23, killing 79 people according to Tehran, who announced that he had moved since certain detainees, without specifying who. The families and lawyers of Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris had claimed on Friday “proof of life immediately”. “We do not know everything about the fate of Cécile and Jacques, we do not know if they are still alive, we do not know where they are,” had alerted Cécile’s sister, Noémie Kohler.
Ripped walls and collapsed ceilings
The French authorities had indicated last week having “had the assurance” that the two hostages “n ‘[avaient] not injured in the Israeli strike. But “this information comes from the Iranian authorities”, which is “far from being a guarantee”, had warned Noémie Kohler on Friday, whose last telephone contact with his sister dates back to May 28.
Photos of the Evine penitentiary complex provided by the Iranian judicial power site, Mizan Online, show ripped walls, collapsed ceilings and lots of rubble being cleared by shovels.
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Cécile Kohler, a 40 -year -old teacher of letters from eastern France and her companion Jacques Paris, 72, were arrested on May 7, 2022, on the last day of a tourist trip to Iran.
