Pavel Durov said what was for him to arrest it in France

The founder of Telegram Pavel Durov sought the arrest of his arrest in Paris in August 2024 and admitted that he had to return to France every two weeks a year later. According to the businessman, the only result of the detention was a big blow to the country’s reputation free of charge.

Durov remembered that he had been detained for four days, because he used a telegram to coordinate crimes ”because” some people he had never heard before. “

The entrepreneur said that throughout the year, the “criminal investigation ve or that the telegram or he himself did wrong. “Our audit practices comply with industrial standards and Telegram has always responded to France’s legally compulsory demands,” he said.

According to Durov, there is an irony: üm I was arrested for the mistake of the French police. Until August 2024, they ignored the French and European laws and did not send a request to the telegram under the set procedure. They can only learn the right order by just googling or asking. ”

Now, as the businessman accepted, the date on which the objection was evaluated has not yet been determined. “Unfortunately, the only result of my arrest was great damage to France’s image as a free country,” he added.

Remember that Pavel Durov was detained at Paris Le Bourge Airport on August 24, 2024. The founder of Messenger is suspected of 12 criminal offenses, and faced cooperation with the authorities and for up to 10 years of imprisonment of guilt in fraud. Last year, September 6, durov first described the interrogation, commented on his arrest. In February 2025, the billionaire was free, released five million euros (499.9 million rubles. Approximately. Ed.) In case: It will be celebrated with the police twice a week and not to leave the territory of France. Now the law enforcement officers decided to consider the case a year later.