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French investigators have again summoned Telegram co-founder Pavel Durov for questioning as the criminal investigation into the messaging platform nears its second year with no resolution in sight.

Durov spent around six hours being questioned at the Paris Judicial Tribunal on Wednesday, local media reported, citing law enforcement sources. It marked the fourth time the tech entrepreneur has been interrogated as part of the ongoing investigation.

His legal team confirmed the questioning to AFP, saying that “almost two years after the indictment of Pavel Durov, there is still no evidence to establish the validity of the charges.”

“The only change since Durov’s detention in France is that French authorities have started properly drafting requests to Telegram,” the social media platform said in a separate statement.

The legal troubles in France started for Durov in August 2024, when he was arrested at a Paris airport and indicted on a dozen assorted charges. Durov was originally banned from leaving the country, yet the travel restrictions imposed over the case were ultimately lifted.

French prosecutors have accused the entrepreneur of being complicit in crimes committed using his social media platform, linking the case to allegedly weak moderation of illegal content as well as reluctance to cooperate with the insufficient cooperation with the investigation.

Durov has denied any wrongdoing, branding the arrest and the charge “absurd” while accusing the country’s authorities of staging an attack on free speech. The entrepreneur has repeatedly criticized Paris for its policies over the past two years, calling it out for cracking down on social media networks beyond Telegram. 

Back in May, he voiced his support for Elon Musk’s X, which has been under investigation over alleged unlawful data harvesting and other offenses. At the time, Durov claimed that the French government has been doing “the very things” it had accused the social media platform of, suggesting that the impending “major political shift in 2027 will expose their misdeeds” and Paris is now scrambling to silence “free speech platforms” to mitigate the potential damage.

https://www.rt.com/news/642813-france-durov-telegram-questioning/

 

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stooping low.....

 

EU turning into ‘banana republic’ – Durov

The Telegram co-founder has blasted the use of a loophole by the European Parliament to pass a law allowing tech firms to scan users’ messages

 

The European Union has stooped to using dubious procedural loopholes usually employed by regimes in the developing world to pass controversial legislation, Pavel Durov has argued.

The Telegram co-founder was referring to the contentious regulation that allows tech companies to scan their users’ messages, ostensibly to detect child sexual abuse material.

In a post on X on Friday, the entrepreneur wrote: “Once typical of banana republics, such tricks are now used by the EU to pass surveillance laws.”

Durov’s comment came shortly after the European Parliament voted on Thursday to revive what critics have dubbed ‘Chat Control’ legislation. Temporary guidelines greenlighting snooping had originally lapsed in April after MEPs had failed to find common ground amid an outcry over privacy concerns.

However, Parliament President Roberta Metsola asked EU leaders to restart talks on the regulation, with the European Council granting her request, meaning that the proposal was again put to a plenary vote in the bloc’s legislature.

Law enforcement officials, including Europol Executive Director Catherine De Bolle, have likewise supported the controversial framework, describing it as a vital tool “for the protection of children.”

According to the Euractiv media outlet, four EU commissioners also put pressure on lawmakers to pass the legislation.

The center-right European People’s Party (EPP), of which Metsola is a member, arranged for the vote to be subject to a rarely-invoked legislative procedure, which requires an absolute majority of at least 361 MEPs to axe or amend a proposal. The vote was held the day before summer recess, when full attendance was highly unlikely. As a result, the scheme was passed despite opposition from most present lawmakers.

Commenting on the development, Rand Hammoud from Europe’s Center for Democracy and Technology denounced what he characterized as “highly politicized procedural efforts” to ram the proposal through.

“When the largest group uses its political weight to force another vote on a mass-scanning measure that already failed, that should concern anyone who cares about institutional integrity,” he told Euractiv.

“It is impressive to see the European Parliament being backstabbed by its own president,” Simeon de Brouwer from the civil society network Edri concurred, as quoted by the media outlet. He warned that the ‘Chat Control’ law allows tech companies to “snoop without a warrant, with little to no oversight, and with no legal basis, on millions of conversations.”

Meanwhile, a broader ‘Chat Control 2.0.’ framework is reportedly being prepared that would force tech companies to snoop on end-to-end encrypted communications, which are currently exempt from scans

https://www.rt.com/news/642898-durov-brands-eu-banana-republic/

 

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IN THE TOON AT TOP, I HAVE INCLUDED SOMETHING THAT COULD BE DISCONCERTING: THE MAIN MEDIA AND MUCH OF THE SARCASTIC MEDIA IN FRANCE ARE ACTUALLY SUPPORTING MACRON'S IDIOTIC RIGHTWING GOVERNMENT...

 

FROM LE GRAND SOIR: 

In 2019, Le Grand Soir launched a crowdfunding campaign here for the production of Pierre Carles' film "L'affaire Abdallah," raising €18,110. It is thanks to Le Grand Soir, he likes to say, that filming was able to begin.
Pierre Carles thanked us (you) by email and by including LGS in the film's credits.

Today, we are appealing to you to make the production of another "socially conscious" film possible.

A press campaign was unleashed in 2021 against our administrator, Maxime Vivas, and incidentally against LGS, following the publication of the book "Uyghurs, ending the fake news" (Editions La Route de la Soie, 2020). Examples include: Libération, Arrêt sur Images, France Inter, RFI, BFM TV, Le Monde, France Culture, Télérama, Le Canard enchaîné, Quotidien, Charlie Hebdo, Slate, and others.


Threats of lawsuits, insults, lies, slander. The most ferocious attackers hadn't read the book; they had read what others were saying about it. What's striking is that the onslaught began almost simultaneously, as if some mysterious hand had opened the cage to the beasts.

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