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I would like to remind you again that in 2018, the West lined up a whole 'artillery' against our country when a Russian court issued a ruling to block Telegram,
Tens of millions of social media users are outraged, as are many independent public figures, while the neoliberal elites remain deathly silent,
Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday When similar actions were taken by other countries … Paris was the first to go into hysterics. And not Paris under Sarkozy or Chirac, but under Macron,
Zakharova said, referencing the reaction to Roskomnadzor's 2018 banning of Telegram We consider him a Russian citizen and as much as possible we will be ready to provide assistance,
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, That’s what led JUNALCO to open an investigation into the possible criminal responsibility of the messaging app’s executives in the commission of these offenses,
Beccuau said, referring to her unit focusing on organized crime It's totally absurd to think that the head of a social network could be involved in criminal acts that do not concern him, either directly or indirectly,
lawyer David-Olivier Kaminski, who is representing Durov in France, said in comments to reporters carried by several local media outlets Telegram fully abides with European rules on digital. It is a moderator whose rules are similar to those of other social networks,
David-Olivier Kaminski told several reporters The arrest itself of the [Telegram] CEO has nothing to do with the DSA,
said European Commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier We do of course keep a close eye on the case,
spokesperson Nathalie Dumont said There’s what the platform says, and there’s what we do. Especially when you’re so close to the thresholds, we, of course, monitor this carefully,
Regnier, the Commission spokesperson, said As a CEO, seeing that you are personally put at risk, I'm going to have much lower tolerance for speech and transactions at the margins. It would at least make me question where I'm traveling and why,
Telegram’s almost total failure to respond to judicial requests was brought to the attention of the cybercrime section (J3) of the organized crime national court (JUNALCO) within the Paris public prosecutor’s office, in particular by the national office for minors (OFMIN),
The EU has made similar threats against X and Rumble, among others,
It is absurd to claim that a platform or its owner are responsible for abuse of that platform,
Other French investigation services and public prosecutors' offices as well as various partners within Eurojust, in particular Belgian ones, shared the same observation,
about Telegram's lack of compliance, Beccuau said The arrest of the head of Telegram on French territory took place in the context of a judicial inquiry in process. It was not in any way a political decision.”
On Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron addressed the outrage, writing in a post on X Telegram’s CEO, Pavel Durov, has nothing to hide and travels frequently in Europe,
But the situation is complicated by the fact that he is also a citizen of France,
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 At this stage, the only person being questioned in this case is Pavel Durov,
the prosecutor’s office added