French President Emmanuel Macron is defending his government’s decision to give special fast-track citizenship to Telegram messaging app CEO Pavel Durov. Durov is now under preliminary charges in France over alleged criminal activity on his popular platform.
French authorities have handed Telegram CEO Pavel Durov preliminary charges for allowing alleged criminal activity on his messaging app, and barred him from leaving France pending further investigation.FILE - Telegram co-founder Pavel Durov appears at an event on Aug. 1, 2017 in Jakarta, Indonesia. FILE - Telegram co-founder Pavel Durov speaks during a press conference in Jakarta, Indonesia on Aug. 1, 2017.
Durov’s lawyer David-Olivier Kaminski told French media, “it’s totally absurd to think that the person in charge of a social network could be implicated in criminal acts that don’t concern him, directly or indirectly.”Telegram boss Durov is preliminarily charged with allowing crime on the app and cannot leave Franceunusual biography and multiple passports.
He also mentioned Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel, who like Durov won French citizenship not through the normal difficult and bureaucratic process but via a special process for ‘’merited foreigners.’’
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