Inside the bust that brought down Paville Dorov – and the regular telegram

With Mailochon and other French journalists, the prosecutors were secretly investigating in Dorouf for several months because of his alleged failure in Telegram in preventing illegal activity – which claims the authorities that included fraud, drug trafficking, sexual assault materials (CSAM), and organized crime, claim And terrorism – on the platform. French Genarmerie alone calculated 2460 cases between 2013 and 2024, which has not been answered by legal requests to Telegram, according to Outlet Libération. Maylis De Roeck, a spokeswoman for the Prosecutor’s Office, told WIRE that when her team realized the number of investigations into various departments that stumbled due to Telegram’s lack of response, they decided to issue an arrest order. As they saw, Dorov’s silence was complicit.

In the wake of the arrest directly, no one publicly commented from Telegram. One of the close Durov partners, George Lobushkin – former head of public relations at VKontakte – wireless: “I am in shock, and everyone close to Pavel feels the same. No one was ready for this situation.” Lobushkin added that he was “very anxious” about the future of Telegram if Dorov remains in the reservation.

In the United States, Taker Karlson, one of the first to interact with detention, was the right -wing TV host. In a post on X, Carlson Dorov described as “a live warning to any owner of a platform that refuses to control the truth at the request of governments and Intel agencies.” Elon Musk republished a clip from Carlson’s interview and suspended “#Freepavel”. Even Edward Snowden, the strict critic of TELGRAM security demands, expressed his warning. “I am surprised and deeply saddened because Macron descended to the level of hostages as a way to reach private communications,” wrote on X. Macron, for his part, a statement that France was “deeply committed to freedom of expression,” adding arrest: “Not in any way A political decision. It is up to judges to judge the matter. “

On Sunday evening, after Dorov’s arrest, his custody extended to the limit of 96 hours. According to Mailochon sources, he slept in a narrow cell, although the investigators presented a rare privilege to allow Dawarov to hand over a new set of clothes. According to another interrogation, Dorouov claimed that he was not responding to the requests to remove the law; The police had only sent their requests to the wrong place. (Dorov made a similar claim in 2022 when the Brazilian Supreme Court has temporarily prevented Telegram, saying mainly that the legal requests of the court were lost in the mail.) Dorov also said he was in contact with French intelligence services on terrorism cases.

On August 28, nearly four days after his arrest, the accusation was officially charged with the cost of six charges. The most dangerous – the symmetry in managing an online platform to enable organized crime and illegal transactions – has won the maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, as well as a fine of 500,000 euros ($ 521,000). With the guarantee of 5 million euros ($ 5.2 million) and rapidly paying it, Dorov was released that night, but it is prohibited from leaving the country. It was also ordered to submit a report to a police station twice a week.

The case was against Durov, CEO of a dominant prevailing platform, unprecedented. It came in a moment when it seemed that its declared liberation and the position of the Laissez-FAIRE on the righteousness of the content ascended. The small size of the Dorov team has already inspired the launch of 80 percent of Twitter employees when it took it, according to PersonalityKate Conger and Ryan Mac. Musk softened the company’s teams, trust and safety. If Durov can run a platform of about 60 full -time employees, most of them are in Dubai, then why don’t you try anything similar? Recently, Mark Zuckerberg launched facts in the United States and reduced the application of rules against inflammatory content on the company’s platforms. Zuckerberg said that “the recent elections” was “a cultural turning point about again in giving priority to speech.”