{"id":35408,"date":"2024-08-29T17:07:41","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T21:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/frances-macron-says-giving-telegram-ceo-durov-french-citizenship-was-a-good-thing\/29\/08\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-08-29T17:07:41","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T21:07:41","slug":"frances-macron-says-giving-telegram-ceo-durov-french-citizenship-was-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/frances-macron-says-giving-telegram-ceo-durov-french-citizenship-was-a-good-thing\/29\/08\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"France&#8217;s Macron says giving Telegram CEO Durov French citizenship was a good thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) \u2014 French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday defended his decision to give special fast-track citizenship to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/telegram-pavel-durov-arrest-2c8015c102cce23c23d55c6ca82641c5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Telegram messaging app CEO Pavel Durov;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Telegram messaging app CEO Pavel Durov<\/a>, who is now under preliminary charges in France over alleged criminal activity on his popular platform.<\/p>\n<p>Macron also said he was unaware that Durov was coming to France before his surprise weekend arrest, and had no plans to meet with him.<\/p>\n<p>Free-speech advocates, far-right figures and authoritarian governments around the world have spoken out in Durov\u2019s defense and criticized French authorities over the case. Durov was <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/france-telegram-pavel-durov-arrest-6e213d227458f330ed16e7fe221a696c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:freed on 5 million euro bail;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">freed on 5 million euro bail<\/a> but barred from leaving France and ordered to report to a police station twice a week pending further investigation.<\/p>\n<p>French prosecutors accuse Durov of complicity in allowing drug trafficking and sharing of sexual images of children on Telegram, and of refusing to cooperate with authorities investigating illegal activity on the app.<\/p>\n<p>Durov\u2019s lawyer David-Olivier Kaminski told French media, \u201cit\u2019s totally absurd to think that the person in charge of a social network could be implicated in criminal acts that don\u2019t concern him, directly or indirectly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The case has called attention to the challenges of policing illegal activity online \u2014 and to the Russia-born Durov\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/telegram-pavel-durov-passports-ce3b260f1366fe0f4480313f1e1d2c0a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:unusual biography and multiple passports.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">unusual biography and multiple passports.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a news conference while on a visit to Serbia, Macron said France supports freedom of expression and the liberty of entrepreneurs. He said that approving Durov\u2019s request for French nationality \u2014 like high-profile sports stars, performers and others who contribute to France\u2019s wealth and learn French \u2014 was \u2018\u2019good for our country.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>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 \u2018\u2019merited foreigners.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>French satirical and investigative newspaper Le Canard Enchaine reported that Durov told police upon his arrest Saturday that he was planning to meet with Macron.<\/p>\n<p>Macron denied that. \u2018\u2019I was absolutely not aware of Mr. Durov\u2019s arrival in France,\u2019\u2019 Macron said. \u2018\u2019It is false that I offered any kind of invitation to him.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>His arrest was \u2018\u2019an independent act of French justice,\u2019\u2019 he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/frances-macron-says-giving-telegram-202719676.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) &mdash; French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday defended his decision to give special fast-track citizenship to Telegram messaging app<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/frances-macron-says-giving-telegram-ceo-durov-french-citizenship-was-a-good-thing\/29\/08\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}