On the occasion of the third anniversary of the arrest of Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris, more than forty support for support for the two French hostages are organized everywhere in France this Wednesday, May 7. Demonstrations will take place, in Alsace, Colmar, Mulhouse, Strasbourg and Sélestat while a large rally is planned Place de la Nation, in Paris at 6 p.m. A collection of letters, Never without Cécile will be launched on this occasion.
Considered as “state hostages” by the French authorities, the teacher from Soultz and her companion have been detained for three years in Evin prison. According to the support committee, “a fourth consular visit was granted to Jacques and Cécile on April 15, the previous one dating from February 18, 2024. Limited to ten minutes, the interviews took place under close and intimidating surveillance, preventing any free word. Rare calls for their family in Visio, less than one per month, are granted randomly and take place under close surveillance, hampering the dialogue and sometimes imposing the transmission of threatening messages, “said Cécile’s family.
“They sleep on blankets”
According to the support committee, “during the last call, on April 14, families noted the presence of an agent filming the scene”. “The conditions of detention of Cécile and Jacques remain extremely alarming: locked in a small cell, continuously lit, without bed or furniture, they sleep on covers. Their access to daylight is strictly limited to two or three weekly outings of thirty minutes in a narrow courtyard. The personal effects that the embassy tries to give them – books, glasses, mail – never reach them, systematically confiscated by the penitentiary authorities “, denounce the leaders of the support committee which also evoke” a constant psychological torture: false announcements of extremely heavy and imminent convictions, manipulations and lies, maintenance in a climate of terror … “
Wednesday, May 7, gathering in front of the Colmar town hall at 12:30 p.m.; Place du Marché aux cabbage in Sélestat at 5 p.m.; Place Kléber in Strasbourg at 6 p.m. and Place de la Réunion in Mulhouse at 6.30 p.m.
