Prassinos was born in Constantinople , Ottoman Empire ( now Turkey ) in 1916 , the son of Victorine and Lysandre Prassinos . In 1922 , at the age of six , he immigrated to France with his family , who had escaped the brutal persecution of Greeks and other ethnic minorities by the Ottoman government . Prassinos became a naturalized French citizen in 1949
persecution of Greeks
Greek genocide
Mario Prassinos