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US State Department Is Behind the Arrest of Telegram CEO in France – “I Believe the State Dept., at the Very Least, – Is Participating in this Political Prosecution”
thegatewaypundit.com ^ | Aug. 25, 2024 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 08/26/2024 5:50:29 PM PDT by ransomnote

On Saturday, the CEO of the popular messaging app Telegram was arrested at Le Bourget airport in France for refusing to comply with the country’s censorship laws.

Pavel Durov, 39, was arrested on the tarmac as he got off his private jet from Azerbaijan.

On Saturday evening Mike Benz, the founder and Executive Director of the Foundation for Freedom Online released a video explaining who he believes is behind this arrest – The US State Department.

Benz is an authority of the Deep State and the US government operations in Europe and abroad.

Mike Benz:

SNIP

One of the things they’re talking about in the space right now is what can be done. The fact is, the House Foreign Affairs Committee could subpoena or could demand as part of its oversight all communications between the US Embassy in Paris, that is the State Department’s branch in France, for their communications with prosecutors or government officials about Havel’s arrest prior to the arrest.

Because I believe the State Department is, at the very least, if not outright pushing, participating in this political prosecution. The State Department has been going after Telegram. Now, they don’t want to shut Telegram down. Let me explain this. Telegram is a double-edged sword for the State Department.

Telegram played a major role in the State Department’s fomenting of the Colour Revolution in Belarus in the summer of 2020. The National Endowment for Democracy, the US State Department, and USAID were all funding the major organisers of the street riots in Belarus and using Telegram as the main channel to organise those street riots because Telegram has such ubiquitous use in Eastern Europe, also in Russia, also in Ukraine. So they loved Telegram as a way to organise, rent a riots, to destabilise Lukashenko’s government.


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1 posted on 08/26/2024 5:50:29 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote

That means brother Blinkey is the villain here.


2 posted on 08/26/2024 5:52:42 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Remember! A vote for the Voo Doo Hoo Doo and Timmy is a vote for another four years of Kenyan BS.)
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To: ransomnote

So are they gonna like hunt me down?


3 posted on 08/26/2024 5:59:06 PM PDT by waterhill (I Believe! Eph. 5:11)
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To: ransomnote

This could get ugly and now I get it why Russia is wondering.
It’s the timing.


4 posted on 08/26/2024 6:02:38 PM PDT by dforest
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To: ransomnote
Stalin got Trotsky in Mexico City with an ice pick.

The US isn't quite at that level yet. But we're getting close.

5 posted on 08/26/2024 6:04:02 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (I think women should get out of women's sports before they get hurt.)
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To: waterhill
> So are they gonna like hunt me down? <

No. Oh, wait. Yes.


6 posted on 08/26/2024 6:07:20 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: ransomnote

Our government is so extremely crooked.


7 posted on 08/26/2024 6:10:10 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: ransomnote

That’s rich. France charges him with possession of pornographic images of minors, while their own President Macaroni began having a relationship with his then teacher Brigitte Trogneux at the age of 16, and she was 24 years older than him at the time. President Macaroni’s wife is a pedophile if she’s anything. She was a teacher at La Providence, a private school in Amiens, northern France, the school Macaroni was attending at the time. Trogneux was married at the time with three children. She didn’t divorce her first husband until 2006, obviously cheating on him all those years with Macron, who she married in 2007. She’s 71 now.


8 posted on 08/26/2024 6:16:15 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: ransomnote

OF COURSE THEY ARE,

The Fascist world-state is all in and will literally kill opposition.

your neighborhood soon, ummm , now


9 posted on 08/26/2024 6:25:06 PM PDT by A strike ("Rise Peter, kill and eat.")
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To: mass55th

Nicely done!


10 posted on 08/26/2024 6:27:58 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: mass55th

“and she was 24 years older than him at the time.”

Wouldn’t she still be about 24 years older than him? Not sure what “at the time” signifies.


11 posted on 08/26/2024 7:26:19 PM PDT by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: steve86
"Wouldn’t she still be about 24 years older than him? Not sure what “at the time” signifies."

You want to be anal about my wording? Other than that, it signifies she was a pedophile who was having an affair with a 16 year old student that was attending the school Macaroni was attending. She was his drama teacher. Some article say Macaroni was 15 at the time, and she was a married 39 year old with three children. Her daughter Laurence, born in 1977 was a classmate of Macaroni's, who was also born in 1977. When Macaroni's parents found out they were dumbfounded. They met Bridgette and asked her to at least not see their son until he was of legal age. Bridgette told them she "could not promise anything."

How Emmanuel Macron's parents discovered their son was dating his 40-year-old teacher

12 posted on 08/26/2024 7:54:07 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: mass55th

Have you ever seen the video of Candace Owens and Piers Morgan?

According to here, Macron’s “wife” apparently had a “brother”, who has vanished. Journalists in France were researching the phenomena and they were visited by French intelligence.

She said some interesting stuff about it.


13 posted on 08/26/2024 8:02:43 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: mass55th

They had to sneak in the terrorism charge. IIRC, there is a quirk in French law, which like America, does guarantee a right to counsel, except in terrorism cases there is a delay (96 hours I believe) until that right kicks in, so the police have your for four days to work on you.


14 posted on 08/26/2024 8:05:59 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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To: ransomnote

Count on it!


15 posted on 08/26/2024 8:38:20 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: ransomnote

Apple is hoing to remove the app automatically and ban it with an update.

This was a coordinated hit.


16 posted on 08/26/2024 8:39:53 PM PDT by Jumper
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To: ransomnote

Be interesting to see if there’s a counterattack against the state department in the next week or two.


17 posted on 08/27/2024 8:47:07 AM PDT by sergeantdave (AI training involves stealing content from creators and not paying them a penny)
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