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"Confessions" of French in Iran: FO denounces a "shameful manipulation"

2022-10-07T18:15:26.785Z


Force Ouvrière denounced Friday, October 7 "shameful manipulation", the day after Iran broadcast the "confession" of a teacher...


Force Ouvrière denounced Friday, October 7 "

shameful manipulation

", the day after Iran broadcast the "confession" of a French teacher member of an FO union, arrested in May in the country with her companion and accused of 'spying.

The broadcast on Thursday of a video in which Cécile Kohler, arrested with her companion Jacques Paris, presents herself as an operational intelligence agent at the Directorate General for External Security (DGSE), the French intelligence services, is "

a shameful manipulation and horrible, which does not deceive anyone

,” FO wrote in a statement.

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Total outrage

The central trade union body, which had never spoken on the subject before, “

denounces the arrest and detention of Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris

” and “

expresses its total indignation at the senseless and absurd accusations by the Iranian authorities

” against these two French nationals “

detained in solitary confinement in Iran for more than five months

”.

The secretary general of FO, Frédéric Souillot, also denounces in the press release "

the cruel treatment to which they are subject, no contact, no communication having yet taken place since their arrest, and calls for their immediate release and their return to France with their families and loved ones

.

Iran announced on May 11 the

entered the country with the aim of unleashing chaos and destabilizing society

", later identified as Cécile Kohler, an official of the Fnec FP-FO teachers' union and her companion Jacques Paris.

According to a union source, they were sightseeing at the time of their arrest, which occurred when Iran was the scene of demonstrations by teachers demanding reforms for an increase in their salaries in particular.

The Quai d'Orsay, which had denounced an "

unfounded

" arrest in May, qualified the two Frenchmen on Thursday as "

State hostages

" and denounced the broadcast of the video as an "

unworthy, revolting, unacceptable staging. and contrary to international law

”.

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Source: lefigaro

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