By Le Figaro with AFP
Published
January 13 at 9:16 a.m.,
updated January 13 at 9:53 a.m.
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In an audio message broadcast on France Inter, Olivier Grondeau, a French detainee, denounces the conditions of his detention in Iran.
The 34-year-old Frenchman Olivier Grondeau, detained in Iran for more than two years, chose to reveal his identity for the first time, citing a “state of exhaustion” in an audio message broadcast this Monday, January 13 on public radio France Inter.
“You, who have the power to influence this matter, hear this truth. Cécile's strength, Jacques' strength, Olivier's strength are running out.”he says in a telephone statement, referring to his two compatriots Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris, also detained in Iran since 2022. “Your responsibility is committed to the survival of three human beings”he says.
A testimony due to his “state of exhaustion”
He explains that he chose to reveal his identity because of his “state of exhaustion”despite the risks. Olivier Grondeau was arrested in Shiraz, southern Iran, in October 2022, and sentenced to five years in prison for “plot against the Islamic Republic”explained her mother Thérèse Grondeau on France Inter.
This is the first time that this Frenchman, keen on Persian poetry, who according to his relatives was traveling to Iran on a tourist visa as part of a world tour, has spoken publicly.
France summoned the Iranian ambassador to Paris on Friday January 10 to denounce the situation “intolerable” of the “state hostages” French people detained according to her by the Islamic Republic. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs denounced “undignified conditions of detention which, for some, amount to torture under international law”.
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