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Telegram app founder Pavel Durov reportedly arrested at French airport

August 25, 2024 GOVERNMENT, MEDIA, Spotlight, Tyranny 1

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ER Editor: French citizen and Telegram founder Pavel Burov got arrested at Le Bourget airport near Paris last night for facilitating crimes because of lack of platform moderation on Telegram. Kim Dotcom comments below. This is what we published on Dotcom recently, who is suddenly facing his own challenges. All part of the movie, we believe – the hypocrisies are way too obvious —

“I’m Not Leaving”: Kim Dotcom Defiant After NZ Approves Extradition For Trial In United States

RT, with Maria Zakharova calling out western hypocrisy over Burov’s arrest in the second piece —

‘Darkness descending’: Tucker Carlson reacts to reports of Durov’s arrest

Moscow addresses foreign NGOs over Telegram founder’s arrest

Twitter reaction —

Top French geneticist and Covid truther —

Translation: OUCH… Telegram founder Pavel Durov has just been arrested upon his arrival on French soil (Bourget). What will not be done to prevent us from communicating...

Here’s Burov’s interview with Tucker —

We have a feeling France is on display again here, more than Burov and Telegram. A follow-up to the humiliation of the Olympics and a government that, following a fake election that went to the Far Left instead of what the public really wants, still can’t get a Prime Minister sorted out. The topic of Macron and ‘Brigitte’ is still hovering out there. Tell it, Candace!

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Billionaire Telegram CEO Pavel Durov Arrested In France

Tyler Durden's Photo TYLER DURDEN

Pavel Durov, the billionaire co-founder and CEO of messaging app Telegram was arrested at Le Bourget airport outside of Paris Saturday evening, according to TF1 TV, citing an unnamed source.

According to the report, Durov, 39, was traveling aboard his private jet after arriving from Azerbaijan, which triggered a French search warrant issued by the OFMIN of the French judicial police due to his inclusion in a wanted persons file (FPR).

Telegram offers end-to-end encrypted messaging – and allows users to set up “channels” to disseminate information quickly to followers.

“He made a blunder this evening. We don’t know why … Was this flight just a stopover? In any case, he’s in custody!” a source close to the investigation told the news outlet (translated by Google).

Durov was detained by the National Anti-Fraud Office (ONAF), over the alleged facilitation of various crimes including terrorism, narcotics trafficking, and fraud.

“On his platform, he allowed an incalculable number of offences and crimes to be committed, for which he did nothing to moderate or cooperate,” a source told TF1 TV.

The arrest was characterized by Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom as part of the “crackdown against free speech.”

Dotcom recommends that people “Backup and clean your Telegram account while you still can.”

The Russian-born Durov notably left Russia in 2014 after he refused to comply with demands to shut down opposition communities on his VK social media platform, which he has since sold. He now lives in Dubai, where Telegram is based, and holds dual citizenship in France and the UAE.

ER: full text —

Pavel Durov left Russia when the government tried to control his social media company, Telegram. But in the end, it wasn’t Putin who arrested him for allowing the public to exercise free speech. It was a western country, a Biden administration ally and enthusiastic NATO member, that locked him away. Pavel Durov sits in a French jail tonight, a living warning to any platform owner who refuses to censor the truth at the behest of governments and intel agencies. Darkness is descending fast on the formerly free world. Here’s our interview with Durov from several months ago:

Durov, whose net worth is estimated at $15.5 billion, has said that some governments had sought to pressure him, but that the Telegram app – which has 900 million active users, should remain a “neutral platform,” and not a “player in geopolitics.” Durov and his brother founded Telegram in 2013.

According to The Guardian, the Russian embassy in France is taking “immediate steps” to clarify the situation.

He faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted.

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1 Comment on Telegram app founder Pavel Durov reportedly arrested at French airport

  1. Censorship Industrial Complex Expert Mike Benz Explains Telegram CEO’s Arrest
    https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/censorship-industrial-complex-expert-mike-benz-explains-telegram-ceos-arrest/
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    Pavel Durov had recently appeared on Tucker Carlson’s show to talk about how the FBI had tried to infiltrate Telegram in order to install backdoors, so that they could collect all of their data and spy on anti-Globalists dissidents and the like.

    After the successive debacles of the 2024 Paris Olympics and the 2024 DNC Convention in Chicago, the Globalists can’t have people sharing clips and telling jokes about how sick and disgusting these people are.

    Remember how the French government claimed copyright strikes against those sharing clips from the opening ceremonies of the Olympics? Aren’t the Olympics supposed to be a major publicity event, promoting the Host Country? Wasn’t everybody supposed to fall in love with France and share images of the events? Isn’t that what the Olympics are largely about? How insane and out-of-touch are these morons?

    Anyway, the subverted/perverted French government arrested the Telegram CEO when Durov’s private plane landed in Paris on Saturday.

    Ars Tecnica is reporting that his arrest due to “a near-total lack of moderation” on the platform, allowing crime to proliferate – crimes, of which the French Government is now planning to charge Durov as an accomplice.

    It’s a little more complex than this, as Mike Benz explains, below. Mike Benz is my power animal. He is another great hero to emerge during the current information war.

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    Mike Benz: Hey, I’m here, in the airport in Austin and I was just on this [Twitter/X] Space with Mario [Nawfal] and Andrew Tate and Kim Dotcom and a bunch of people, but I want to make a point – but I think they booted me, before I could say anything. So I’m just gonna make it here:

    On the news of Pavel’s arrest, the founder of Telegram, this is something that I see going up the US State Department. Wow, surprise, surprise, that’s my take, but that’s what it is.

    And one of the things they’re talking about in the Space, right now is, “What can be done?”

    And the fact is, is the House Foreign Affairs Committee could subpoena or could demand, as part of its Oversight, all communications between the US Embassy in Paris – that is, the State Department’s branch in France – for their communications with prosecutors or government officials about Pavel’s arrest, prior to the arrest.

    Because I believe the State Department is at the very least – if not outright pushing – participating in this political prosecution.

    The State Department has been going after Telegram – now, they don’t want to shut Telegram down. Let me explain this:

    Telegram is a double-edged sword for the State Department. Telegram played a major role in the State Department’s fomenting of the Color Revolution in Belarus in the summer of 2020. The National Endowment for Democracy, the US State Department, and USAID were all funding the major organizers of the street riots in Belarus and using Telegram as the main channel to organize those street riots, because Telegram has such ubiquitous use in Eastern Europe – also in Russia, also in Ukraine.

    So, they loved Telegram, as a way to organize “rent-a-riots”, to destabilize Lukashenko’s government. And I bet that they would do the same – if they didn’t, I’m not aware of it, just because I haven’t looked into it – but I bet that when Alexei Navalny was deployed against Russia from his right-wing flank, in organizing “peaceful protests” in Russia, I bet Telegram was used by the State Department as the coordination then – because I know that it was in Belarus.

    Now, on the other hand, the State Department pressured – actually, astroturfed, with tens of millions of dollars – the government of Brazil to bring Telegram to its knees. Brazil passed a ban – actually made it a crime – to access Telegram for several weeks in 2022, until Telegram agreed to the new “counter-misinformation” laws that were lobbied-for by the US State Department’s NGO, Soft Power Swarm.

    So what they want to do is not kill Telegram, like they wanted to kill WikiLeaks. They want to control it. And the problem was, is they didn’t have the ability to put sufficient pressure on Pavel to break his will.

    He’s living in Dubai. And now, they have leverage and I believe that’s the purpose of this prosecution: not to establish a legal precedent – that it is, that every encrypted account, every encrypted chat app, its founder is personally responsible for all illegal conversations or transactions on the platform – but rather, to force Telegram to become WhatsApp.

    This is what they did to WhatsApp, by the way, through this regulatory pressure. WhatsApp is owned by Facebook. They broke WhatsApp’s back.

    And now – this is why I always say, “Don’t say anything on WhatsApp that you don’t want put on a Times Square jumbotron,” because the whole thing is Fed F@cking Central. They broke it – and I watched that happen, by the way.

    You know, the Atlantic Council played a huge role in that, with seven CIA directors on its board and annual funding from the Pentagon, the State Department and CIA cut-outs like the NED…

    They didn’t want to shut down WhatsApp. WhatsApp is used by everybody in Latin America and South America and half in India. They want to control it, to be able to have their own personnel in place to install and oversee the policies in every country on Earth, in order to shape the political outcomes from the inside of every country on Earth, to determine their elections. This is what they did to WhatsApp and Telegram in Brazil.

    And when I say “They”, I don’t mean the government of Brazil. I mean the US State Department, the US Embassy, the US-funded institutions, like the Atlantic Council, the Wilson Center, the National Democratic Institute, the International Republican Institute, the NED. Thousands of these – at least hundreds, that I’ve documented – were all capacity-built.

    And then, I mean, there’s a whole government program, CEPS, which you’re going to be learning a lot more about, in the months ahead. The $150 [million] annual budget – and $40 million of it was in Brazil – to lobby for these censorship laws.

    I believe that they thought that they needed leverage against Telegram to finally be able to bring it under their control.

    And remember, this is very important, in the State Department and the Pentagon’s view for winning the war against Russia via Ukraine, because all the Russians use Telegram chats. The ability to have a backdoor, to access – (video cuts out).
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