Pavel Durov arrested in France.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/telegram-messaging-app-ceo-pavel-212228927.html

The arrest of the 39-year-old technology billionaire prompted on Sunday a warning from Moscow to Paris that he should be accorded his rights and criticism from X owner Elon Musk who said that free speech in Europe was under attack.


do you really feel comfortable believing France?

https://tass.com/world/1833471

The Arrest warrant was only valid in France so this was the only way to do this.

He had dual french citizenship.

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-816149

Durov, who has dual French and United Arab Emirates citizenship, was arrested as part of a preliminary police investigation into allegedly allowing a wide range of crimes due to a lack of moderators on Telegram and a lack of cooperation with police, a third French police source said.

"Pavel Durov is a political prisoner - a victim of a witch-hunt by the West," Russian lawmaker Maria Butina told Reuters in the shadow of the Kremlin.

LOL  what??  lack of moderators??   LOLOL That is SO pathetic.

The Truth is in here somewhere yet i'm not willing to put all my confidence in anything out of these tyrannical western gov'ts.

It is a shame that there are so many criminals out there who would pay good money for anything illegal. Just as there are criminals out there who pay good money for illegal drugs, pornography, firearms, Etc. I can understand arresting the owner of the company in one respect but, the actual criminals who bought/used the illegal information, what happens to them?

Hard telling just who's in the right on this one.
First you read that anti-Israeli hackers are making their military 'secrets' public, then you read that several countries, including the USA, have been trying to control what does, and doesn't, get said on a public messaging board.

If we didn't have to suffer such fools in gov't, it might not be so hard to choose.

Calypso Jones wrote:Durov, who has dual French and United Arab Emirates citizenship, was arrested as part of a preliminary police investigation into allegedly allowing a wide range of crimes due to a lack of moderators on Telegram and a lack of cooperation with police, a third French police source said.

"Pavel Durov is a political prisoner - a victim of a witch-hunt by the West," Russian lawmaker Maria Butina told Reuters in the shadow of the Kremlin.

Oh yeah, thanks for the reminder.

Since when do people get arrested "due to a preliminary investigation?"

Come to think of it, just what IS a 'preliminary investigation?'