Macron Vows Tireless Work to Free French Couple in Iran Jail


UK – Iran International, May 07, 2025

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday that France is working tirelessly to secure the release of a French couple detained for three years in Iran on spying charges.

Cecile Kohler, a 40-year-old literature teacher, and her partner Jacques Paris, in his 70s, were arrested on May 7, 2022, during a tourist trip to Iran.

Both Paris and Kohler were subject to inhumane detention conditions including forced false confessions on state TV.

Several Europeans are being held by Tehran, which France and other European nations consider a strategy of hostage-taking to gain concessions.

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