France: Telegram leader Pavel Durov Arrested · Global Voices

The founder and head of the online platform, Pavel Durov, was arrested yesterday Saturday (24.08.2024) at the evening at Bourge International Airport, near Paris. At the expense of the founder of the Telegram platform, Pavel Durov was pending a search warrant against him from justice in France as part of an investigation into various violations of the application he has created, which, among other things, allows for the exchange of encrypted messages, told his French Agency sources adjacent to the process, confirming information on the TF1 and LCI television networks. Accompanied by a bodyguard and his assistant who permanently accompanies him, the billionaire with dual, French and Russian citizenship, 39, was arrested in Burze in the period from 19:30 to 20:00 (local hours; 20:30 to 21:00 hours of Greece), specified one of the sources.