Paris – Th\u00e9o Clerc, un Fran\u00e7ais qui a b\u00e9n\u00e9fici\u00e9 lundi de la gr\u00e2ce du pr\u00e9sident de l’Azerba\u00efdjan, \u00ab est de retour en France, apr\u00e8s 422 jours en d\u00e9tention \u00bb, a annonc\u00e9 mardi le ministre fran\u00e7ais des Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot, qui a exprim\u00e9 son \u00ab immense soulagement \u00bb. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00ab C’est l’honneur et la fiert\u00e9 de la diplomatie fran\u00e7aise et de ses agents d’avoir agi sans rel\u00e2che \u00e0 sa lib\u00e9ration \u00bb, a-t-il ajout\u00e9 devant l’Assembl\u00e9e nationale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
De son c\u00f4t\u00e9, l’entourage de la cheffe de la diplomatie de l’Union europ\u00e9enne, Kaja Kallas, a fait savoir que celle-ci avait contribu\u00e9 \u00e0 la lib\u00e9ration du Fran\u00e7ais en plaidant sa cause \u00e0 l’occasion d’une visite en Azerba\u00efdjan en avril.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cette lib\u00e9ration \u00ab illustre les effets d’une diplomatie discr\u00e8te et d’un dialogue respectueux \u00bb, s’est r\u00e9jouie Mme Kallas dans un message sur X. \u00ab<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Th\u00e9o Clerc, 38 ans, avait \u00e9t\u00e9 condamn\u00e9 en septembre 2024 \u00e0 trois ans de prison pour un graffiti dans le m\u00e9tro de Bakou, la capitale azerba\u00efdjanaise, sur fond de tensions entre la France et ce pays du Caucase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cette condamnation avait \u00e9t\u00e9 qualifi\u00e9e par Paris d’\u00ab arbitraire \u00bb. (27 mai 2025)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Condamn\u00e9 \u00e0 trois ans de prison en Azerba\u00efdjan pour un graffiti \u00e0 Bakou, un Fran\u00e7ais a \u00e9t\u00e9 lib\u00e9r\u00e9 gr\u00e2ce aux efforts de la diplomatie de son pays, soutenus par la cheffe de celle de l\u2019UE, Kaja Kallas. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":1288968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1288967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe-in-brief"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeannewsroom.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeannewsroom.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeannewsroom.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeannewsroom.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeannewsroom.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1288967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/europeannewsroom.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeannewsroom.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1288968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeannewsroom.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1288967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeannewsroom.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1288967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeannewsroom.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1288967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}