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The Franco-German cyclo-anger arrested in Iran last month and detained since that date in an unknown place, is “innocent of everything,” said his parents and friends this Thursday, July 17, 2025 in a statement at theAFP.
“We ask the Iranian authorities who hold him a sign of life and to be able to get in touch with him as soon as possible,” ask Lennart Monterlos, 19 years old. He was arrested on June 16 in Bandar-Abbas, Iran, on the third day of the conflict then in progress between Israel and Iran.
The family has no “official information”
Lennart Monterlos has since become the third French detained in this country. Before him, Cécile Kohler, a professor of letters today aged 40, and her companion Jacques Paris, 72, had been arrested on May 7, 2022, on the last day of a tourist trip to Iran. Accused in particular of espionage on behalf of Israel, they face the death penalty.
Regarding Lennart Monterlos, who was 19 years old on June 26, “a month after his arrest, we understand that we have official information either on the place of detention, or on the reasons for his arrest in Bandar-Abbas in Iran during the war,” deplored his parents and friends in the press releaseAFP.
“We are counting on the efforts of French diplomacy, which we know mobilized, for the release as quickly as possible of our very young son who is innocent of everything. We are also in close contact with German diplomats, ”continues the text.
“Hosting diplomacy”
Lennart Monterlos, who crossed Iran by bicycle, “was arrested for committing an offense,” Iranian Foreign Affairs Minister Abbas Araghchi said without further details. The world.
The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs urged the French not to go to Iran or to leave Iranian territory, believing that Iran led “a deliberate policy”, “assumed to take hostages of the Westerners”.
Paris and the other European Chancellery, whose nationals are held in Iran accuse Tehran of practicing “hostage diplomacy”, to weigh in particular in the very sensitive discussions on Iranian nuclear, in the impasse for years, and to obtain a lifting of sanctions, and while the prospect of the potential reinstatements of the UN in the coming weeks.
source : AFP
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