The nut number 2 388/A221 will soon disappear from the registers of the prison administration. Very exactly on July 25. This is the date set by the Paris Court of Appeal for the release of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, the oldest political prisoner in France, Europe and perhaps in the world.
He had been sentenced in 1987 for complicity in the assassination of two “diplomats”, in reality masters spy of the CIA and Mossad, the UN and Israeli intelligence services. Now 74 years old, he spent forty in the French jails.
This Thursday, July 17, by going to the Lannemezan prison (Hautes-Pyrénées), José Navarro and Georges Larregola, two members of the French Communist Party, among the main animators of the Committee for the Liberation of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, are moved as kids.
They who helped break the isolation of the Lebanese communist activist by visiting him regularly – as did several parliamentarians from the PCF and LFI (Andrée Taurinya, André Chassaigne, Elsa Faucillon, Éric Coquerel …) – know that finally, after eleven requests for liberation, the one who is a comrade who has become a friend will finally come out and find his country, Lebanon.
“This release is also and essentially the fruit of mobilization”
“On the road that led us to the prison center, an intense emotion seized us, tells José Navarro to humanity. Memories mixed with anger in relation to infamous detention. He is
