Ka cika wannan jumla: An haifi Prassinos a Constantinople, Daular Ottoman (yanzu Turkiya) a shekara ta 1916, ɗan Victorine da Lysandre Prassinos. A 1922, yana da shekaru shida, ya yi hijira zuwa Faransa tare da iyalinsa, wanda ya tsere daga mummunan
zalunci na Helenawa da sauran 'yan tsiraru na' yan tsiraru da gwamnatin Ottoman. Prassinos ya zama ɗan ƙasar Faransa a shekara ta 1949.