Intimidation, permanent lighting, lack of access to care … In a letter to the NGO Human Rights Watch, Carole Ghosn, the wife of Carlos Ghosn, denounced Sunday the “harsh” detention conditions of Renault’s boss.
In this nine-page letter, the wife of the former boss of Nissan and still boss of Renault deplores the fact that her husband is detained in a lighted cell night and day. And without access to his daily medical treatment, says the wife of her husband detained since 19 November.
“Extirpate a confession”
“For hours every day, the inspectors interrogate, intimidate, lecture and admonish him, with the intention of eradicating a confession,” writes Carole Ghosn about her husband, targeted by cascade revelations .
Indicted in Japan for breach of trust and misrepresentation of tax returns to stock market authorities over eight years, the businessman claims his innocence .
In his letter, his wife further asserts that the investigators put pressure on her husband to sign documents in Japanese, a language he does not master, and of which only an oral translation was made, without the presence of his lawyer.
Beginning of controversy
“I urge Human Rights Watch to highlight its case […], to urge the government to reform its draconian system of detention and interrogation,” Carole Ghosn said, while the conditions of his detention ci – not harder than other prisoners of the same type, however – have been criticized.
Carlos Ghosn had the right to receive only his advice and representatives of the countries he holds a passport (Brazil, France and Lebanon). But a court decision last week allowed him to receive visits from his family.
Carlos Ghosn’s chief attorney, Motonari Otsuru, denied last week that his client was forced to sign written documents in Japanese. “Mr. Ghosn did not tell us once that he had to sign anything in a language he does not understand,” he told reporters.
He also stated that his client had been transferred to a larger cell, equipped with a bed in the West, and assured that the French had never complained to him about his conditions of detention.