He has been lying in an Iranian prison for a year.
Frenchman Benjamin Brière will be tried for “
espionage
” and “
propaganda against the
political
system
” of the Islamic Republic, his lawyer announced on Sunday.
The first is punishable in Iran by the death penalty, and the second from three months to one year in prison, being accused of the French thirty-something "
photographs of prohibited areas
" taken with a drone in a natural park in Iran.
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At the end of the investigation, the prosecution confirmed the prosecution "
and the prosecutor prepares the indictment and sends it to the Revolutionary Court for the continuation of the judicial process,
" said Master Saïd Dehghan.
According to the lawyer, the Frenchman was the subject of two other charges which were not ultimately retained at the end of the investigation: "
corruption on Earth
", one of the most serious charges of the Iranian penal code, punishable by death, and consumption of alcohol, punishable by flogging.
The announcement of the referral to trial comes a few days after the publication by the French weekly
Le Point
of an open letter from his sister, calling on French President Emmanuel Macron to obtain the release of the thirty-something, imprisoned in Mashhad, in the north - is Iran, according to her "
baseless
". She claims that her brother was arrested while traveling through the Islamic Republic of Iran as a tourist, during a long campervan trip that began in 2018.