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Durov under investigation for alleged ‘child abuse’ – legacy media

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FILE PHOTO: Pavel Durov. © Social media.

The Telegram boss has reportedly been accused of violence against his six-year-old son.

French authorities have launched an investigation into claims that Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov committed “serious acts of violence” against his own son, AFP reported on Wednesday. The investigation is separate from an ongoing probe into his alleged complicity in a wide range of crimes.

The 39-year-old Russian, who also holds the citizenship of France, the UAE, and St. Kitts and Nevis, appeared before a Paris court on Wednesday. Though he has not been formally indicted in either French case a decision is expected overnight on Wednesday.

Durov could be charged with 12 criminal offenses, including facilitating narcotics distribution, money laundering, and organized crime, and aiding in the distribution of child pornography. According to Paris prosecutors, a “person unnamed” used Durov’s app to commit multiple offenses. Durov’s refusal to turn over the user’s data to law enforcement led to him being investigated, Politico reported on Wednesday.

Shortly after Durov arrived at the court, France’s AFP news agency reported that the entrepreneur was also being investigated on suspicion of “serious acts of violence” against his six-year-old son. Citing “a source close to the case,” AFP claimed that the probe was recently opened by France’s child welfare office.

Durov’s son was born in Russia and now resides in Switzerland with his mother, Irina Bolgar. It is unclear whether the investigation is linked to a criminal complaint filed against Durov by Bolgar in Switzerland last year. According to court documents seen by Forbes magazine, Bolgar accused her ex-partner of five instances of violence against his son, before filing a child custody case.

Both cases were filed shortly after Durov allegedly stopped paying Bolgar €150,000 ($167,500) in child support per month, Forbes noted. Durov has also claimed to have fathered over 100 children in 12 countries through sperm dnoation.

In a statement on Sunday, Telegram called it “absurd to claim that a platform or its owner are responsible for abuse of that platform.” Telegram complies with local laws, including the EU’s Digital Rights Act (DSA) and anti-Russian sanctions, the company added. Neither Durov nor Telegram have commented on the alleged child abuse case.

Anti-censorship activists have described Durov’s arrest as part of a wider campaign against free speech waged by Western governments, with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden accusing France of taking the entrepreneur “hostage” in order to access private communications on Telegram. X Owner Elon Musk, American journalist Tucker Carlson, and Silicon Valley investor David Sacks have all condemned Durov’s arrest as an attack on free speech.

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  1. Stitch up
    Things are getting desperate
    Key word: Encrypted
    We can’t have lost control of the narrative
    We can’t spy on You 😊

    • Sexual abuse is always the establishment’s go-to playbook whenever they’re trying to destroy someone. Every single time. They did it to Assange, Trump, and countless others. It’s honestly so transparent and tedious at this point. The guy’s been charged simply because he pissed the establishment off. And we all know it.

  2. And this is all from a nation whose government….

    1. Sneaked military into New Zealand on a private yacht
    2. Blew up a Greenpeace protest boat.
    3. Murdered a man.
    4. When caught, threatened access to the EU market for our butter and dairy products.

    After 40 years, French politicians are still liars, cheats and murders.

    Our care and respect for the French citizens remains.

    The French resistance is not to be underestimated.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior

  3. yup agreed, stitched up Russell Brand creating a fake show with fake witnesses, never ending! not long to go before all this nonscience stops. why would he?
    why dont these idiots investigate gates, cliton, obumba – who killed the chef? so many but no. When will they get it, we will not be silenced!!!

  4. If the Zionists can’t get control of Telegram, then they destroy those associated with it using any and all methods. They always use ‘child abuse / sex abuse’ as tyheir key weapons, while the same ilk said in the Israeli Knesset that it’s OK to rape Palestinians to the point of death!
    John MacAfee is a prime example…
    So is Kim Dotcom. When the J3w$ of Hellywood couldn’t get control of Mega-Upload, they then went after KDC and portrayed the civil case as a criminal one.
    Why does the FBI have the power to raid a N.Z property? WE HAVE NO SOVEREIGNTY, AND THE POLITICIANS WHO ALLOWED THIS SHOULD BE CRIMINALLY CHARGED WITH EXCULPATORAL TREASON!!!
    Now the PTB continue to violate KDC’s International, Civil and Human Rights by contemplating extradition from N.Z. to the U.S. where torture and murder (Jeffrey Epstein, Gonzo Lira Lira and John MacAfee being victims of the NWO Global Prison as examples of this…) are rampant in the U.S. Prison / Gulag Systema.
    Zuckerberg, despite being J3wi$h, will be next in the sights of the Zionists.
    Even though Zuck played along with the Globalist narrative of spying and profiling users on Fascbuch and Meta, maybe he’s wised-up to the the Globalist tactics of them turning on their underlings and human assets, even if they’re J3wi$h.
    Maybe Zuck sees his empire being seized under Martial Law by the government and used for extreme Globalist WEF / WHO / NWO / AIPAC / ADL propaganda to the fullest extent.
    Then Zuckerberg will also be done away with, just like the other former Zionist ‘human assets’…!
    Since the Zuck is now aware of the massive multitudes of the global populations who are now aware of what he has allowed on his platforms being used to frame, accuse and criminalise the users, he’s now trying to back-pedal to appease the same on the politically-IN-correct issues that are raised on those platforms.
    Too late for that…as now proven by the U.K. Police and MI-5 & MI-6 having arrested those Brits for expressing their opinions of the Labout-led J3wi$h/Zionist tyranny in the U.K. .
    After all, Starmer’s wife is J3wi$h, and that is why he was shooed into office.

  5. They are holding him responsible for everything said on his platform, how is this different to the Govt holding a Telco responsible for everything said on their mobile phone network?
    The difference is the Telco’s let the Govt listen to everything said on their mobile phone network.

    • Who uses the Telco to make a private phone call?
      The owners of Signal are not being prosecuted because the owners are the CIA.

      Apple are reportedly removing Telegram Messenger from the App store.

      Download Messenger now!

      If you have Telegram Messenger” on your Apple iphone and wish to keep it. Follow this.

      1. Go to Settings
      2. Got to Screen Time.
      3. Got to Content & Privacy Restrictions
      4. Turn on Content & Privacy Restrictions (slide over to on)
      5. Change option “Deleting apps” setting from “Allow” to “Don’t Allow”

  6. Father stops paying mother US$167,500 per month so mother now claims child abuse. Clearly a reliable witness.

    Typical really. Just typical.

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