The hostage released on Wednesday was sentenced in November 2023 to five years in prison for propaganda and endangering state security, a sentence deemed “unacceptable” by the Quai d’Orsay.
More than 20 months of ordeal coming to an end. Former French hostage in Iran Louis Arnaud arrived at Le Bourget this Thursday around 9 a.m. Detained by Tehran since September 2022, Emmanuel Macron announced his release on Wednesday evening.
In a short message published on the social network “tomorrow in France after too long incarceration in Iran”, thanking “our Omani friends and all those who worked for this happy outcome.”
The thirty-year-old, consultant, began a world tour in July 2022 which took him to Iran. He was arrested two months later with other Europeans accused of participating in protests after the death of Mahsa Aminia young Iranian Kurd who died after her arrest by the morality police.
His traveling companions were released fairly quickly but Louis Arnaud remained in prison before being sentenced last November to five years in prison for propaganda and endangering the security of the Iranian state.
On Wednesday evening, the President of the Republic also called on Tehran to liberate “without delay” the other three French – Cécile Kohler and her partner Jacques Paris, as well as a third French national, named Olivier – detained in the country.
