Emmanuel Macron announced his release in a message published on X, in which he urged Tehran to release “without delay” the three other French people detained in the Islamic Republic.
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“Louis Arnaud is free.” The Frenchman, who had been detained in Iran since September 2022, was released, Emmanuel Macron announced Wednesday June 12, in a message published on X. “He will be in France tomorrow after too long incarceration in Iran,” wrote the President of the Republic, thanking “our Omani friends and all those who worked for this happy outcome”he wrote. “This evening, I am also thinking of Cécile, Jacques and Olivier. I call on Iran to release them without delay”he added, citing the three other French hostages held in the country.
The thirty-year-old began a world tour in July 2022 which took him to Iran, “a country that he had dreamed of visiting for a long time for the richness of its history and the welcome of its inhabitants”, said his mother Sylvie Arnaud a few months ago. The consultant was arrested in September 2022 with other Europeans accused of having participated in the demonstrations after the death of Mahsa Amini, a young Iranian Kurd who died after her arrest by the morality police.
