>French media reports that an OFMIN (small office) warrant was issued against him by the French National Directorate of the Judicial Police based on a preliminary investigation on Durov's supposed "failure to control content on Telegram".
Ah, excuse the double post - it seems we posted in the same minute. I'm not sure what is etiquette here (first time I post) so let me know if I should delete it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41341353 This links to a French news article that explains that there was a warrant for him for 'lack of moderation and cooperation with law enforcement' by Telegram.
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[ 0.19 ms ] story [ 15.1 ms ] threadPavel Durov, the Telegram founder was just arrested out of his airplane in the Bourget airport in France near Paris.
There is no info about why he was arrested but it looks like that French police had a warrant for him.
>French media reports that an OFMIN (small office) warrant was issued against him by the French National Directorate of the Judicial Police based on a preliminary investigation on Durov's supposed "failure to control content on Telegram".
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41341353 This links to a French news article that explains that there was a warrant for him for 'lack of moderation and cooperation with law enforcement' by Telegram.
Edit: Direct link to article: https://www.tf1info.fr/justice-faits-divers/info-tf1-lci-le-...