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French prosecutors say Telegram messaging app CEO has been freed from custody, will appear in court
AP ^ | Aug 28, 2024

Posted on 08/28/2024 7:30:43 AM PDT by McGruff

French prosecutors on Wednesday freed Telegram CEO Pavel Durov from police custody after four days of questioning over allegations that the messaging app is being used for illegal activities.

Durov was detained on Saturday at Le Bourget airport outside Paris as part of a judicial inquiry opened last month involving 12 alleged criminal violations.

“An investigating judge has ended Pavel Durov’s police custody and will have him brought to court for a first appearance and a possible indictment,” a statement from the Paris prosecutor’s office said.

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1 posted on 08/28/2024 7:30:43 AM PDT by McGruff
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To: McGruff

“… allegations that the messaging app is being used for illegal activities.…”
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‘“Illegal activities” = saying thoughts forbidden by the EU rulers.


2 posted on 08/28/2024 7:37:00 AM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: McGruff

The French prosecutors are trying really hard to spin this as him not giving them the encryption codes to allow the police to monitor drug traffickers, child porn purveyors and prostitution on the platform.


3 posted on 08/28/2024 7:37:33 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: McGruff

Shouldn’t Apple’s Tim Cook also be arrested given that all sorts of crimes are committed using his phones, laptops and iPads and he does nothing to stop them?


4 posted on 08/28/2024 7:50:04 AM PDT by montag813
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To: montag813

But why only Apple? I’m sure unseemly thoughts and words are spread on other telephones as well, and how about US Mail?


5 posted on 08/28/2024 7:57:45 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: McGruff

Drug trafficking and child porn are the two levers used by governments to remove freedoms. Loss of freedoms with money, movement, communications and more.

If the powers that be were serious prisons would be built executions would occur, and borders would be impermeable.

Until then this is all manipulative lies.


6 posted on 08/28/2024 7:58:39 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: Chickensoup

Neither of those two problems could exist without the assistance and profit of government officials. Nicly done;)


7 posted on 08/28/2024 8:03:02 AM PDT by Jumper
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To: McGruff

Money talks.

“UAE suspends deal to buy fighter jets from France over Telegram CEO’s arrest: Report“

https://www.firstpost.com/world/uae-suspends-deal-to-buy-fighter-jets-from-france-over-telegram-ceo-pavel-durov-arrest-reports-13809001.html/amp


8 posted on 08/28/2024 8:24:35 AM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: House Atreides
Durov will remove illegal content when he finds it. He won't sensor speech for the government. His arrest is nothing but an attempt to threaten him to comply with the governments of America, The EU and Israel. Durov might have been born in Russia but he takes free speech and privacy more serious than most Americans. The deep state loved him when he wouldn't give Putin information on the Ukrainian coup plotters. Now they hate him because he won't give in to them.
9 posted on 08/28/2024 8:36:51 AM PDT by Rdct29 (The Democrats Are The New Nazi Party )
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To: McGruff

Governments around the world forfeited all authority over digital communications when those same governments refused to arrest and charge any of the Jeffrey Epstein’s and Ghislaine Maxwell’s clients.


10 posted on 08/28/2024 9:01:39 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: hardspunned

I’m glad the UAE weighed in. France has really stepped hard left, to fascism under Macron. Traveling to France or UK right now is inadvisable.


11 posted on 08/28/2024 9:31:51 AM PDT by JayGalt (Fight! Fight! Fight!)
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To: McGruff

Fakebook actively supports illegal activities on FB, including child trafficking.


12 posted on 08/28/2024 9:45:04 AM PDT by CodeToad (Rule #1: The elites want you dead.)
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To: McGruff

Were I he, I might be tempted to get in my private jet and head for the nearest free country, though where that would be, I don’t know.


13 posted on 08/28/2024 9:50:35 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: hardspunned

Good for them

Their foreign minister is an erudite realistic royal

He has repeatedly warned the West about taking in so many Muslims

“You’re voluntarily inheriting our problem”

https://youtu.be/-dV4m43xZmY?si=RMXSRH_Z-IuZTxBt


14 posted on 08/28/2024 9:56:45 AM PDT by wardaddy (Thank you God for saving president Trump from murder)
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To: Jumper

Thank you
Lots to chew on


15 posted on 08/28/2024 10:05:43 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: Flaming Conservative

Russia.


16 posted on 08/28/2024 12:40:06 PM PDT by NavyShoe
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To: Flaming Conservative

Estonia, Poland or Argentina.


17 posted on 08/28/2024 1:01:15 PM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: Nateman

I just realized, Hungary would be safe.


18 posted on 08/28/2024 1:29:56 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Flaming Conservative

If I am not mistaken, Rush was planing on going to Hungry for his medical care if Obamacare destroyed the Health Care system here in America.


19 posted on 08/28/2024 1:36:25 PM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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