Portraits of French national Cécile Kohler with her partner Jacques Paris along with a placard reading "Freedom for Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris arbitrarily detained in Iran for over two years in appalling conditions" outside the Assemblée Nationale in Paris on March 25, 2025. BERTRAND GUAY / AFP
Two French nationals held in Iran are on their way back home, President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday, April 7, following their release in November after more than three years in prison on espionage charges.
"Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris are free and on their way to France, after three and a half years in detention in Iran," the French president wrote on X.
A source at the French foreign ministry said they left Iran Tuesday at dawn in a diplomatic convoy with the French ambassador and "are currently in Azerbaijan."
This is a developing story.
