Olivier GRONDEAU formally launched after two years of detention in Iran | EUROtoday

On Mar 20, 2025

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IHe had been held in Iran for over two years. “Olivier Rondeau is free, in France, among his own! “Announced Emmanuel Macron this Thursday, March 20 on X.” We share the immense happiness and relief of his family. I thank all the services of the State, our ambassador to Iran and the Crisis and Support Center of the Quai d’Orsay for their decisive action, “added the President of the Republic.

A relief for those who were imprisoned in Evin prison, in Tehran, where he was serving a five -year sentence for “collecting information with a view to handing over to the opposing espionage service”. He had been arrested at the end of 2022, while he was doing tourism. His fate and identity had been revealed in an audio message broadcast in 2025 by Radio France.

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Olivier Rondeau is free, in France, among his own! We share the immense happiness and relief of his family.

I thank all the state services, our ambassador to Iran and the Crisis and Support Center of the Quai d’Orsay, for their decisive action. …

– Emmanuel Macron (@emmanuelmacron) March 2025

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“At first, he really thought that the charges against him were a misunderstanding that was going to be quickly settled. Then, he also chose to remain anonymous to save his family with media coverage, “defined Point Tristan Bultiauw, spokesperson for the French detainee help committee.

Read too “We could not abandon them to their fate”: the loopy exfiltration of the Afghan college studentsFor ten years, Tehran has multiplied the arrests of Western or binational nationals passing by Iran to be able to put strain on their nation of origin and to acquire political counterparties in trade for his or her launch. If we subsequently ignore, at this hour, the negotiations for the discharge of Olivier Rondeau, the liberated information stays a reduction.

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