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French headquarters of Elon Musk’s X raided by Paris cybercrime unit
The Guardian ^ | Tue 3 Feb 2026 | Jon Henley and Sam Jones

Posted on 02/03/2026 9:36:08 AM PST by MinorityRepublican

Prosecutors have raided the French headquarters of Elon Musk’s social media platform X and summoned the tech billionaire and the company’s former chief executive for questioning as part of an investigation into alleged cybercrime.

“A search is under way by the cybercrime unit of the Paris prosecutor’s office, the national police cyber unit and Europol,” the Paris prosecutors’ office said in a post on X on Tuesday, adding that it would no longer be publishing on the network.

It said in a statement that Musk and Linda Yaccarino had been summoned for “voluntary questioning” in April in their capacity as “de facto and de jure managers of the X platform at the time of the events”. Yaccarino resigned as chief executive of X in July last year.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: European Union; France
KEYWORDS: cyber; elon; fungool; musk; vaffanculo; x

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1 posted on 02/03/2026 9:36:08 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Why would he have any offices in communist Europe?


2 posted on 02/03/2026 9:37:58 AM PST by for-q-clinton (RL)
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To: MinorityRepublican

If you want to lose X in France - this is how you lose X in France.

Just hire some guys to deal with the Frenchie leaders, Elon.


3 posted on 02/03/2026 9:39:06 AM PST by an amused spectator (principled conservatism is Lefty subterfuge)
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To: for-q-clinton

This is a real escalation. I think they will regret it.


4 posted on 02/03/2026 9:40:12 AM PST by iamgalt
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To: MinorityRepublican
the Paris prosecutors’ office said in a post on X on Tuesday, adding that it would no longer be publishing on the network.

You'll no longer have access to the network in France, you dumb Frogs.

Be sure to orally service your Musloid masters, though.

5 posted on 02/03/2026 9:41:20 AM PST by an amused spectator (principled conservatism is Lefty subterfuge)
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To: MinorityRepublican

France has been extremely aggressive with social media. They raided Telegram and brought charges against Pavel Durov. Now they raided X and very well could bring charges against Musk.


6 posted on 02/03/2026 9:41:28 AM PST 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: iamgalt

Amélie : Retrouve ta Maison – French Version of the Amelia Meme (Wholesome Remigration)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_4yn-8CBbk

The dumb Frogs have bigger fish to fry - their Musloid imports.


7 posted on 02/03/2026 9:43:30 AM PST by an amused spectator (principled conservatism is Lefty subterfuge)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Control freaks at it again.


8 posted on 02/03/2026 9:44:00 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Who needs free speech? Certainly not the French, right?


9 posted on 02/03/2026 9:44:32 AM PST by woweeitsme
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

If I had Musk’s money, I’d just hire some hard guys to turn the French leaders into girls.


10 posted on 02/03/2026 9:44:49 AM PST by an amused spectator (principled conservatism is Lefty subterfuge)
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To: MinorityRepublican

maybe Musk could start a Charlie Hebdo cartoon appreciation thread on X


11 posted on 02/03/2026 9:48:27 AM PST by algore
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Will Elon distribute Starlink equipment to the French Resistance? And will the French government hunt it down to silence it like the Iranian government does.


12 posted on 02/03/2026 9:51:08 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Pam Bondi is the George McClellan of attorneys general.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

That is very troubling because the charge against Durov was he failed to moderate his platform. The French blew that up into complicity with child and drug trafficking and organized crime. He can’t leave France. Musk should stay out of Europe. Bet he can’t wait to get to Mars and be done with the lilliputians of earth.


13 posted on 02/03/2026 9:51:42 AM PST by TimSkalaBim
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To: KarlInOhio
Will Elon distribute Starlink equipment to the French Resistance?

Eventually, it will come to that. The Left can't handle differing opinions, after all, and will use violence to quell it. They won't even think twice about it once they feel secure enough in their control.
14 posted on 02/03/2026 9:53:45 AM PST by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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> Prosecutors have raided the French headquarters of Elon Musk’s social media platform X <

Meanwhile, UK’s Keir Starmer is mad because he didn’t think of this first.


15 posted on 02/03/2026 9:55:13 AM PST by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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Anyone gonna miss the Paris prosecutor’s X account?

No? Didn’t think so.


16 posted on 02/03/2026 10:01:44 AM PST by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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17 posted on 02/03/2026 10:03:29 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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To: an amused spectator

“They say the French are a peculiar race.
They fight with their feet and **** with their face.”


18 posted on 02/03/2026 10:04:39 AM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

HOW FAST CAN ELON SHUT DOWN STARLINK IN FRANCE???


19 posted on 02/03/2026 10:12:12 AM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: an amused spectator

I’d just turn off Starlink and X and watch the people take care of it. Social media addictions trump politics.


20 posted on 02/03/2026 10:17:44 AM PST by Resolute Conservative
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