The Russian-French tech entrepreneur has reportedly been detained on Saturday.
Russia must demand the immediate release of Telegram founder Pavel Durov who has been reportedly detained in France, Deputy Speaker of the Russian State Duma Vladislav Davankov has said.
According to French media, the 39-year-old dual Russian-French national was detained on Saturday at the Paris-Le Bourget airport. The French authorities reportedly believe that the lax moderation rules and encryption technology had allowed the widespread use of the Telegram messager by criminals.
Writing on Telegram in the early hours of Sunday, Davankov defended Durov’s record. “Hardly anyone else has done more for the development of digital services in Russia and the world,” he argued.
“We need to get him out of there. I have urged Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to appeal to the French authorities to release Pavel Durov from custody,” the politician wrote on Telegram. “His arrest could be politically motivated and used to gain access to personal information of Telegram users. We cannot allow this.”
In case Paris refuses to release Durov, “everything must be done to transport him to the UAE or Russia – if he agrees, of course,” the politician said.
He dismissed the allegations against Durov, saying that illicit activity can be found on all messaging platforms. “But nobody arrests or jails their owners. And it shouldn’t happen this time.”
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Sunday that the Russian Embassy in Paris was working on a response to the situation with Durov.
Durov was born in St. Petersburg. In 2006, he founded the social media platform VK, often described as ‘Russia’s Facebook.’ In 2013, he launched Telegram, which currently has more than 950 million monthly active users.
Durov left Russia in the mid 2010s and has mostly lived in the UAE. He became a French national in 2021.
Serves him right for becoming a French National…
Never trust a frog
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Agree, pretty dumb move… 🙄
There are alot of nice French nationals. Just liike me🥰🥰🥰🥰
so sad boy so many sick mf’s in this world…
The EU does not like the free flow of information, unless it comes from them – their propaganda.
Elon recently revealed that the EU wanted him to sign a secret agreement to censor X otherwise they would fine him. Elon refused and told them what to do with themselves in no uncertain terms.
Years ago, we all used to believe that propaganda was only used in times of war, now we know differently.
Yes Mark. We get our news from people with video cell phones and home news studios on encrypted services like this one. It is more likely the puppet master calling the shots and not the French.
The whole system is rotten to the core. That is why Musk said civil war is coming to Europe.
The FBI seems to have asked him for a ” back door” on Telegram which he refused.
Arrest politically motivated.
Just had a look at the Guardian: spewing such a nasty article that it confirms the political motives
It stinks.
We are back at stalinian processes.
It was the CIA who asked for the back door. FBI is domestic only.
yes, the backdoor is mostly meant for domestic ” surveillance”. Spying over your own people in case it will think by himself….
That is the function of fuckbook and all anti, social media
Hey, so lets arrest the manufacturers of arms and military crap, used to injure and kill innocent civilians. After all, could we not make an argument they are being lax in who these items of destruction and death, are supplied to?
I’d say the argument I just made, has a hell of lot more credibility than going after Telegram or Kim Dotcom for that matter. This is really a veiled attack on line privacy but also the dissemination of free ideas, associated with free speech. Globalist run nations like France, the UK and yes New Zealand, despise this freedom and want to curb it. Why, because it undermines their already failing narrative on politics and society. A narrative that more and more people, are rejecting.
What has and is still happening in the UK really has them running scared. So of course, we see more censorship, criminalising of free speech using any number of pretexts. Terrorism and crime being key “go-to’s”.
Excellent, you made a good point !!!
The most logical and to the point comment on the internet to date. APPLAUSE!!!
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Sarkozy used telegram to communicate with ” bismuth” an alias of his lawyer.
Many things to hide as rumours went ( and are still alive) that Khadafy financed his presidet campaign with suitcases of banknotes. So indeed criminals use telegram
Perhaps he could be grateful and help as he is very close to macron. Birds of a feather
Unless uncle sam and the chosen want the poor guy….
Globalist trying to take our freedom of speech …
The whole WEF clique want to muzzle the population. And many of them are joos, to begin with Attali in france. Curse them all
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240417/fbi-wanted-to-install-backdoor-to-spy-on-users-telegram-founder-tells-tucker-carlson-1117970779.html
The only criminals here are the Governments of France and the EU