France hits out at Israel after strike on Tehran prison holding French citizens

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00:01In the aftermath of Israel's strike on Tehran's Evin prison, footage showing nearby debris

00:06and damage quickly circulated online.

00:09Along with a video published by Israel's foreign minister that appeared to show the

00:13attack itself, this is exactly what the families of two French detainees had been fearing since

00:20Israel and Iran started trading strikes earlier this month.

00:25The prison gate is supposedly about 500 metres from where they're being held, so it's extremely

00:30close.

00:31It's now a matter of the utmost urgency to get them out of there.

00:34Cécile Coulaire and her partner Jacques Paris have been held in Iran since May 2022 on espionage

00:43charges which their families reject.

00:46They're being kept in Evin prison, known for holding political prisoners and where rights

00:51groups say torture is routine.

00:54The French president condemned the attack on the facility, saying it had nothing to do

00:57with Israel's stated objectives.

01:00It does nothing to reduce Iran's nuclear program and it has endangered the lives of Iranian and

01:06foreign civilians.

01:09France's Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barreau said he had received assurances that Coulaire

01:14and Paris were unharmed, though the lawyer for their families said he had not received

01:19any proof of life by Tuesday morning.

01:22Martin Pradel urged Macron to go one step further by recognizing that the attack could qualify

01:28as a war crime.

01:32If, as an Israeli minister himself said, this civilian building was deliberately targeted,

01:38then this situation may well qualify as what we call a war crime.

01:45According to Iranian media, the attack not only struck the prison's main entrance, but also

01:50damaged a prosecutor's office and two courts within the complex.

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