The Swiss who died in prison would have photographed a military site

The Iranian judicial authority said on Wednesday that the Swiss national, who died in custody on January 9 in an Iranian prison, had been arrested for taking photos of a prohibited military site. Iran reported in early January the suicide of this man, accused of espionage and imprisoned in the prison of Semnan, a city in the east of the country.

“He entered Iran as a tourist with a private car equipped with various equipment with various applications,” announced Iranian justice spokesperson Asghar Jahangir in his weekly press conference. It was initially hypothesized that the man had taken soil as a means of espionage to analyze potential Iranian nuclear tests. But the spokesperson today puts forward a new element: the Swiss would have “taken photos of prohibited military zones and collaborated with hostile governments”.

We also learn that the Swiss was born in Namibia. Until now, the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs only said that he had been domiciled in southern Africa for more than 20 years. “On the day of the incident, after having breakfast, the video of which is available, he cut off the electricity in his cell in the absence of his fellow inmate,” said Asghar Jahangir. “He hanged himself in an area where it was not possible to record the image by the camera” and “the body was handed over to the Swiss embassy for repatriation,” he continued. .