Дуров остался во Франции — дело основателя Telegram не будет рассматриваться в суде в течение следующего года.

The case of the founder of the Telegram messenger Pavel Durov will not be brought to court in France for at least a year or even longer. This was reported by Paris prosecutor Maïlis de Reyck in a comment to Wired .

According to Wired, the messenger seems to be “in limbo, waiting for its leader, who has positioned himself as indispensable, to be replaced.” Durov is unable to leave France due to the terms of his bail.

As de Reyck explained, an arrest warrant for Durov was issued after numerous investigations across different departments in France stalled due to Telegram's refusal to respond to law enforcement inquiries. From 2013 to 2024, the French gendarmerie recorded 2460 instances where legal requests were left unanswered. The French prosecution described Durov's silence as “tantamount to complicity.”

Durov's detention followed an investigation into one of Telegram's users who was coercing underage girls to send him illegal content and confessed on the platform to raping one girl. When investigators requested Telegram to reveal the suspect's identity, the company declined.

By July 2024, the investigation had expanded to cover a wide range of crimes, involving a specialized French unit dedicated to combating cybercrime.

An investigator working on cybercrime cases, who is not directly involved in Durov's case, stated that fulfilling Telegram's requests for metadata assists in numerous investigations, particularly in drug trafficking.

Recall that on August 24, Pavel Durov was detained at Paris airport. He was held in custody for several days and then released on a €5 million bail with the obligation to report to the police twice a week. He is prohibited from leaving France.

Durov has been placed on France's wanted list, and the arrest warrant was issued by the National Judicial Police of France based on a preliminary investigation.

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