{"id":3852,"date":"2026-04-08T17:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/3852\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T17:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:16:13","slug":"macron-greets-french-detainees-back-in-paris-after-terrible-ordeal-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/3852\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron greets French detainees back in Paris after \u2018terrible ordeal\u2019 in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/emmanuel-macron?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Emmanuel Macron<\/a> on Wednesday welcomed two French nationals who returned to Paris after spending almost four years detained in <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/iran?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Iran<\/a> on espionage charges, with the French leader hailing \u201cthe end of a terrible ordeal\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Cecile Kohler, 41, and Jacques Paris, 72, arrived on a commercial flight, landing at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris shortly before 9am. They were met on the tarmac by foreign ministry officials.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Macron greeted the pair in the gardens of the Elysee Palace. They appeared in good spirits, and smiled as the French leader embraced them.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cFor us, this is a fresh start. We\u2019re not broken,\u201d Paris said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWe kept our hopes up right to the end,\u201d Kohler said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The pair had been under house arrest at the French embassy in Tehran ever since being freed from more than three years in prison in November, with their fate even more uncertain after US-Israeli strikes on Iran started on February 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday welcomed two French nationals who returned to Paris after spending almost four years&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3657,3656,3254,3660,195,3518,36,3659,5,1388,50,63,3296,343,3658,424,30,340,3292,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-3852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-paris","8":"tag-azerbaijan","9":"tag-baku","10":"tag-cecile-kohler","11":"tag-charles-de-gaulle-airport","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-elysee-palace","14":"tag-emmanuel-macron","15":"tag-evin-prison","16":"tag-france","17":"tag-hamas","18":"tag-iran","19":"tag-israel","20":"tag-jacques-paris","21":"tag-jean-noel-barrot","22":"tag-mahdieh-esfandiari","23":"tag-oman","24":"tag-paris","25":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","26":"tag-tehran","27":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}