00:00Cecile Kohler and Jack Paris, the last French hostages officially held by the Iranian regime,
00:07arrived in France on the 8th of April. They returned after three and a half years of imprisonment at
00:12the Evin prison in Tehran, followed by several months of house arrest at the French embassy.
00:18It was also an emotional moment for Louis Arnault, who was formerly imprisoned there from September
00:242022 to June 2024. Arrested six days after Massa Amini's death while he was on a side-scene trip in
00:32Iran,
00:33he was wrongly accused of participating in protests against the death of the 22-year-old woman.
00:38Although they never met, these French nationals were all imprisoned in section 209 of the Evin prison,
00:45reserved for political prisoners and foreigners.
00:48This section 209, c'est l'Entre du Diable. C'est an abattoir, where people are
00:55entassés dans des cellules sans fenêtres, with lights on 24 hours on 24 hours.
01:01We eat, we live, we sleep even on the ground, like an animal. And we go out on a walk
01:09like animals,
01:11like animals, like dogs, with eyes banded once a week to take the air for 30 minutes. And it's all.
01:18And the rest of the time, you are in this cellule or in interrogation,
01:22because all this dishumanization, all this extreme pressure,
01:28which never stops, even in the sleep, is there to force the evidence of fantasmas and espionage.
01:33L'Iran is plunged in a blackout, and the access to Internet is very restreint.
01:38Have you been able to communicate with the Iranians in place?
01:42And have you also been in contact with your former co-deteners?
01:46J'ai gardé le contact avec mes co-deteners, avec mes frères, et il y a un tout petit peu
01:54d'Internet,
01:55mais c'est très difficile d'avoir des nouvelles. Mais surtout, cet Internet est extrêmement contrôlé,
02:00et aujourd'hui il pouvait être arrêté, exécuté, pour un message sur Twitter. Donc je fais extrêmement
02:09attention de ne pas leur poser de questions sur la guerre, sur leur environnement. C'est juste se préoccuper,
02:15d'être humain à être humain, de la manière dont ils se sentent, et de leur dire qu'ils ne
02:20sont pas seuls,
02:21et qu'on parle d'eux ici aussi, aujourd'hui, et que je fais tout ce que je peux pour
02:25porter leur voix.
02:26Sous-titrage ST' 501
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