Paris. August 24, 2024. Pavel Durov, the Russian-born billionaire founder and owner of the Telegram messaging app, was arrested at Le Bourget airport outside Paris shortly after landing on a private jet late on Saturday. Reuters reports that “BFM and TF1 said that Durov, who has dual French and United Arab Emirates citizenship, was arrested as part of a preliminary police investigation into allowing possible criminality due to a lack of moderators on Telegram and a lack of cooperation with police.
The Drudge Report (an obvious CIA organ since at least Fall of 2018), provided the globalist take at the top of its page on August 25, 2024:
Thus the intelligence community and global elites are seeking to paint Durov’s arrest as a “terrorism, narcotic supply, fraud,” and “money laundering” arrest. Drudge Report links to a story in the Jerusalem Post.
The U.S. government previously obtained a life prison term for Ross Ulbricht, who founded a similarly open and free internet platform in the early 2000s. The US government also recently ordered the extradition of New Zealand internet freedom advocate Kim Dotcom, for “copyright violations.”
In a recent Tucker Carlson interview, Durov said that he had been hounded and harassed by FBI agents and the US government for years. Durov said that the FBI tried to hire a telegram employee to secretly put a backdoor into the system to circumvent Telegram’s encryption.
Libertarian blogger and podcaster Clint Russell suggested that French authorities may be doing the bidding of the U.S. government.
