France, Nov. 17 -- Castro, 41, arrived on Sunday at Orly airport just outside Paris several hours after President Emmanuel Macron revealed on social media that he would be freed.

"Long live liberty, long live equality, and long live fraternity!" Castro told reporters at the airport.

"May all beings on this earth live free from all suffering, live in peace, in love. May all beings live in peace, joy, and abundance."

Castro disappeared on 26 June at the Paraguachon border crossing, which separates Venezuela from Colombia, where he lives.

The yoga teacher had gone to renew his expired Colombian residency visa, his family said in August.

France's foreign minister Jean-Noel Barrot was at the airport to greet Castro.

"He expressed his gra...