French couple return home after three-year detention in Iran

TwoFrenchnationals arrived inParison Wednesday afterspending more than three yearsin anIranianprison onespionagecharges, a source familiar with the case said.

Cecile Kohler, 41, and Jacques Paris, 72, arrived on a commercial flight, landing at the Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris shortly before 9:00am (0700 GMT).

Read more'Free and on their way to France': Ccile Kohler and Jacques Paris released by Iran, says Macron

The pair had been under house arrest at the French embassy in Tehran ever since being freed in November, with their fate even more uncertain after US-Israeli strikes on Iranstarted on February 28.

(FRANCE 24 with AFP)

Originally published on France24

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