Olivier Grondeau, 34, has been detained since his arrest in the south of the country on October 12, 2022, while he was on a world tour. He says he is the victim of “political blackmail” and emphasizes his “exhaustion”.
An Italian journalist released last week, an Iranian-German repatriated across the Rhine on Sunday, but still no French people released from Iranian prisons. Faced with a long and painful wait, one of the three French hostages, held for two and a half years in Tehran, decided to break the silence.
Olivier Grondeau, whose name was previously kept secret, did so by authorizing his family to broadcast extracts of telephone conversations exchanged with her on Monday on Radio France. The Quai d’Orsay had given its approval to this broadcast. More than six months ago, The Figaro had in his possession an extract of a telephone exchange between the hostage and his entourage, but had decided not to publish it so as not to harm the negotiations for his release.
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In this phone call of December 19, 2024, Olivier Grondeau, 34, proclaims his innocence, says he is the victim of “ political blackmail » between France and Iran…
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