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Nathan Joubioux

Macron greets French pair back in Paris after 'terrible' three-year ordeal in Iran

President Emmanuel Macron welcomed two French nationals who returned to Paris on Wednesday after spending almost four years detained in Iran on espionage charges, with the French leader hailing "the end of a terrible ordeal".

Cécile Kohler, 41, and Jacques Paris, 72, arrived on a commercial flight, landing at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris shortly before 9 am and were met on the tarmac by foreign ministry officials.

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