US EditionFrench National Held In Venezuela Released: Macron
- On Sunday, President Emmanuel Macron announced that Camilo Castro, a French citizen detained in Venezuela since late June, has been released, AFP reported.
- His family says he travelled to renew an expired Colombian residency visa and vanished at the Paraguachon border crossing on June 26.
- In mid-September, Castro's mother said she had not received news except a late-July voice message in which he `called for help`, while family and Amnesty International activists held a rally in Toulouse on September 20 with flyers reading `Freedom for Camilo Castro`.
- The announcement was framed under France–Venezuela relations, with Macron writing on Sunday, `I share the relief of his family and thank everyone who worked for his release`.
- Amnesty's July report said Venezuelan authorities use detentions to justify narratives about 'foreign conspiracies' and as bargaining chips, linking the case to a pattern of foreign nationals detained in Venezuela.
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"Live freedom": Camilo Castro, a Frenchman detained in Venezuela since June, returned to France on Sunday, the day after his release, visibly moved and tried.
Camilo Castro, a Frenchman detained in Venezuela since June, returned to France on Sunday, the day after his release. "Long live freedom, live equality and live fraternity," he declared.
The 41-year-old Frenchman was arrested at a border crossing between Venezuela and Colombia at the end of June, where he lived, announced the Elysée on Sunday. He was relieved that his family was preparing to welcome him and help him return to "a normal life".
The release of Camilo Castro, detained in Venezuela since June, was announced by Emmanuel Macron. This yoga teacher had disappeared on the Venezuelan border.
The quadrennial from Toulouse was a yoga teacher in Colombia when he was arrested at the Paraguachon border post, which separates Venezuela from Colombia, as he came to have his visa renewed.
Camilo Castro is free, the French citizen detained in Venezuela since the end of June, and his release was announced by President Emmanu...
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