BREAKING: Telegram Founder Pavel Durov ARRESTED In France!

After stepping off his private jet in France, Telegram Founder Pavel Durov has been arrested.

His crime?

Not allowing the Deep State a back door into his social media platform.

Oops, that’s my paraphrase.

Sorry, according to Reuters, the official reason is for a “lack of moderators” on Telegram.

Say what?

That’s a crime now?

🚨TELEGRAM CEO ARRESTED – MODERN-DAY WITCH HUNT?

Imagine if the CEO of Ford landed in France and was immediately arrested.

The crime?

Someone used a Ford car to commit a hit-and-run, taking advantage of the car’s speed to escape the scene.

Holding the CEO responsible would… https://t.co/6EMIYgy3r7 pic.twitter.com/Nx681I8XzP

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) August 24, 2024

The potential prison sentence?

20 years!

France is actually going to throw Telegram founder Pavel Durov in jail for up to 20 YEARS for refusing to censor the truth.

If this happened to Mark Zuckerberg in Russia, every Western government would be going crazy.

The hypocrisy and double standards are astounding. pic.twitter.com/Clzv1Pn0Vc

— Cillian (@CilComLFC) August 24, 2024

Maybe it’s time we stop doing ANY business with any Far Left country in the EU, how about that?

No more American trade.

Britain is arresting people and giving them multiple years in prison for sharing memes online…

France arrests the owner of a social media platform that did nothing wrong.

Why do we want anything to do with these countries?

Just let them implode on their own.

The UK is arresting people for retweeting the truth about violent illegal aliens

Now the EU is arresting the owners of free speech platforms

At some point we have to start discussing our relationships with authoritarian European countries

Enough is enough pic.twitter.com/XsyQ9OqV1j

— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) August 24, 2024

This old clip from when Pavel was on with Tucker Carlson is now VERY relevant:

The Owner of Telegram, Pavel Durov has been arrested…

The FBI Tried to Secretly Infiltrate Telegram to Give Themselves “Backdoor Access” to Users Private Data

• Durov’s last visit to the US, he brought an engineer….

• The FBI secretly tried to hire his engineer behind the… https://t.co/lQdb9Th38C pic.twitter.com/kytIVscJEH

— MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) August 24, 2024

The Owner of Telegram, Pavel Durov has been arrested…

The FBI Tried to Secretly Infiltrate Telegram to Give Themselves “Backdoor Access” to Users Private Data

• Durov’s last visit to the US, he brought an engineer….

• The FBI secretly tried to hire his engineer behind the back of the CEO of Telegram

• The FBI was trying to learn which open source libraries were integrated to the Telegram App on the client side.

• The FBI tried to convince the engineer to use specific open source tools that would then be integrated into Telegrams Code.

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In a nutshell, the FBI was trying to create backdoors to spy on People who use Telegram.

You can watch the full interview with Tucker here:

Pavel Durov left Russia when the government tried to control Telegram.

It wasn’t Putin who arrested him for allowing the public to exercise free speech. It was FRANCE

A warning to platform owners who refuse censorship.

Here’s @TuckerCarlson with Durov pic.twitter.com/sCYDULMXTr

— Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman) August 24, 2024

Here are more details as they are developing, from Reuters:

Pavel Durov, billionaire founder and CEO of the Telegram messaging app was arrested at the Bourget airport outside Paris on Saturday evening, TF1 TV and BFM TV said, citing unnamed sources.

Durov was travelling aboard his private jet, TF1 said on its website, adding he had been targeted by an arrest warrant in France as part of a preliminary police investigation.

TF1 and BFM both said the investigation was focused on a lack of moderators on Telegram, and that police considered that this situation allowed criminal activity to go on undeterred on the messaging app.

Telegram did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. The French Interior Ministry and police had no comment.

TF1 said Durov had been travelling from Azerbaijan and was arrested at around 20:00 (18:00 GMT).

Telegram, based in Dubai, was founded by Russian-born Durov, who left Russia in 2014 after he refused to comply with demands to shut down opposition communities on his VK social media platform, which he sold.

Durov, who is estimated by Forbes to have a fortune of $15.5 billion, said some governments had sought to pressure him but the app, which has now 900 million active users, should remain a “neutral platform” and not a “player in geopolitics”.

Silicon Valley tycoon David Sacks predicted Telegram would be hit next after they went after TikTok.

Looks like he was right:

David Sacks correctly predicted that Telegram would be next on the list. pic.twitter.com/YXwCSPW3dX

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) August 24, 2024

Watch more here:

The owner of Telegram, Pavel Durov, has just been arrested in France for failing to censor the truth on his application.

The EU regime is exposing nobody but themselves. pic.twitter.com/M0tPWIn4k7

— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) August 24, 2024