It is near noon, in Tehran, on June 23, when Cécile Kohler hears a first detonation. The noise of a second and a third sound. The walls of the tiny cell in Evin prison, where the professor of letters has been locked up for three years, tremble. A few meters away, in the men’s department, Jacques Paris, her 72 -year -old companion arrested like her in May 2022, panicked by the fate of her fellowship injured by bursts of shells and glass.
Then it’s the rush, the panic. The jailers bring together the political prisoners of section 209, attach them two by two and orchestrate their transfer to the penitentiary center of Tehran-Bozorg, in the south of the capital, while the Israeli bombs continue to fall on the city. “I thought I would die”will tell Cécile Kohler to the manager of the French Embassy in Iran during a consular visit granted a week later, the 1East July. Since the Israeli strikes, their real place of detention is unknown.
Terrorized by these strikes, the 40 -year -old woman no longer sleeps or so little. “Every night she hears detonations”tells her sister, Noémie Kohler, joined by phone. Ghost noise or real shots? His family lives in anxiety and fog. After three years of detention, Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris were charged at the end of June by a revolutionary tribunal of “Espionage on behalf of Mossad (Israeli secret services) “”of “Plot in order to reverse power” AND “Corruption on earth”.
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