00:01President Emmanuel Macron welcomed two French nationals who returned to Paris on Wednesday
00:07after spending almost four years detained in Iran on espionage charges with a French leader hailing
00:14the end of a terrible ordeal.
00:30The Prime Minister of Foreign Affairs and all the services that have been mobilized, all the people that have been
00:35mobilized until the end to get us out of the grave, where we have lived the everyday horror, where we
00:42have lived the permanent arbitrage.
00:45Cécile Colleur and Jacques Paris have been under a house arrest at the French Embassy in Tehran ever since being
00:51freed after three years in prison in November,
00:54with their fate even more uncertain after US-Israeli strikes on Iran started in February.
01:00They were arrested in May 2022 at the end of a trip to Iran that their families say was for
01:06tourism.
01:07At the end of a closed-door trial, an Iranian court in October sentenced them to jail on espionage charges
01:15their families say were fabricated.
01:17The pair were among a number of European caught-up in what activists and some Western governments describe as a
01:25deliberate strategy of hostage-taking by Iran to extract concessions from the West.
01:30Thank you very much.
01:31Thank you very much.
01:34Thank you very much.
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