PARIS, Aug 29 (Reuters) – The investigation into Telegram boss Pavel Durov that has fired a warning shot to global tech titans was started by a small cybercrime unit within the Paris prosecutor’s office, led by 38-year-old Johanna Brousse.
The arrest of Durov, 39, last Saturday marks a significant shift in how some global authorities may seek to deal with tech chiefs reluctant to police illegal content on their platforms.
The arrest signalled the mettle of the J3 cybercrime unit, but the true test of its ambitions will be whether Brousse can secure a conviction based on a largely untested legal argument, lawyers said.
In an unprecedented move against a major tech CEO, prosecutors argued Durov bears responsibility for the alleged illegality on his platform, placing him under formal investigation on organized crime charges. He is suspected of complicity in running an online platform that allows the posting of child sex abuse images, drug trafficking and fraud.
Durov’s lawyer said on Thursday it was “absurd” for him to be held responsible and that the app abided by European laws, echoing an earlier statement by Telegram itself.
Being placed under formal investigation in France does not imply guilt or necessarily lead to trial, but indicates judges consider there is enough evidence to proceed with the probe. Investigations can last years before being sent to trial or dropped. Durov is out on bail, but barred from leaving France.
Why should the state control all communications? They have consistently abused their powers. We the plebs can best affect this travesty by understanding it and being mostly on the same page with each other. On a side note, I can’t help but suspect EU bureaucrats are jealous of Durov. ABN
The publicity circus accompanying the arrest explains why the court decided to share a press release listing the charges against Durov. According to this document, the Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office opened a preliminary investigation against Durov on July 8 related to efforts to combat cybercrime.
The Centre for the Fight against Cybercrime (C3N) and the Anti-Fraud National Office (ONAF) have been involved in the investigation. In all, 12 charges have been filed against “a person unnamed” — a classic French judicial term to imply whoever is in charge of Telegram right now.
The charges can be broken down into four categories:
Firstly, Telegram’s founder has been charged with being complicit in storing and distributing CSAM content, facilitating drug trafficking and facilitating organized fraud and other illegal transactions.
Second, the court claims that Telegram refuses to cooperate with law enforcement when they file a formal request for information or documents.
Third, Durov faces several charges related to Telegram’s cryptographic features as they haven’t been formally declared or certified by French authorities. These seem to be minor offenses according to professor of law Florence G’sell.
Fourth, Durov is accused of taking part in a “criminal association with a view to committing a crime or an offense punishable by 5 or more years of imprisonment”, as well as money laundering.
The charges are both broad and technical at the same time. It’s also hard to know exactly their basis without access to the full investigation.
While France is holding Durov, the people left at Telegram will probably cave to threats that they will be similarly charged if they don’t allow police access to Telegram’s systems and, possibly, testify against Durov. ABN
The body of Trump shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks has ‘gone’, a congressman revealed in a report last night accusing the FBI of a ‘scorched earth’ investigation.
Rep. Clay Higgins, a Louisiana Republican who was appointed to Congress‘ bipartisan task force reviewing the assassination attempt, tried to view Crooks’ body on August 5 as part of his own personal inspection.
The former police captain said his request to view the body ’caused quite a stir and revealed a disturbing fact’.
It was at this point that he learned that the FBI had ‘released the body for cremation 10 days’ after the shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13.
Higgins says ‘nobody knew’ that the body had been returned to the family, including the county coroner and local enforcement. He writes that the coroner still had ‘legal authority over the body’ when the FBI made this decision and accuses the agency of ‘obstruction’.
…’Again, similar to releasing the crime scene and scrubbing crime scene biological evidence… this action by the FBI can only be described by any reasonable man as an obstruction to any following investigative effort.’
Official coverups, like false flags, are typically 80% or more out in the open. When top authorities are malfeasant, there is no higher authority to stop them. We saw this with the bogus JFK and 9/11 investigations. We saw it with WMD in Iraq and the absurd pretext for the Ukraine War. We can see it ongoing in Israel where Israelis appear to have no choice but to accept the official story and revel in revenge based on that lie, which is too obvious for words. All of covid is and was yet another example. No higher authority to stop them is one explanation for transparent coverups, but three more are: 1) most people do not notice or are easily persuaded by official information channels; and 2) those of us that see often become jaded because the malfeasance is pervasive; and 3) sadly, many who can see sellout to bribes in the form of money, social media followers, or employment, or threats of loss of employment or worse. ABN
California, Connecticut, New York and Maine require vaccination to attend school, no religious or philosophical exceptions. Given what we now know about vaccines, these states suck. ABN
More proof the West has been conquered. Control of speech is mind-control. Severe punishment for speech is severe mind-control. Your conquerors are controlling your minds. In varying degrees, we can see severe speech control happening across the West. If this is not proof we have already been conquered, what more proof do you need? ABN
Personally, I hate mind-control. It’s always parasites who do it. Arresting people for what they say is psycholinguistic mind-control. Control their words and you control their minds. That’s the formula. ABN
UPDATE: I believe ‘they’ are working on a triple incompetence excuse. First Cheatle’s obvious and obnoxious incompetence, then Roe’s pathetic and incurious incompetence. Then add them together for the third level of incompetence—the incompetent excuse incompetence, which is so obvious, incurious, pathetic and obnoxious no one can believe it so maybe everyone will, or will at least go along with it because it is so awful. I watched 20min or so of the vid and came to the above conclusion. ABN
In an exclusive breaking story, several Federal Air Marshal whistleblowers have come forward with information showing that former U.S. Representative and Presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard is currently enrolled in the Quiet Skies program. Quiet Skies is a TSA surveillance program with its own compartmentalized suspected terrorist watchlist. It is the same program being weaponized against J6 defendants and their families. Quiet Skies is allegedly used to protect traveling Americans from suspected domestic terrorists. The photo below is a screenshot from the actual Target Package used by the FAMS to surveil Gabbard.
The whistleblowers first shared the information with Sonya LaBosco, the Executive Director of the Air Marshal National Council (AMNC), a national advocacy group for the Federal Air Marshals (FAMs). According to LaBosco, at least one of the whistleblowers is ready to go on the record with pertinent documentation. LaBosco shared that Gabbard is unaware she has two Explosive Detection Canine Teams, one Transportation Security Specialist (explosives), one plainclothes TSA Supervisor, and three Federal Air Marshalls on every flight she boards. LaBosco has attempted to contact Gabbard and her staff but has not received a response.
Looks ominous. Be prepared to be forced to accept unsafe & ineffective injections, like the last time, though maybe worse. NZ is a test case and as such will preprogram the gullible worldwide. Noncompliance is the only rational and most effective response to almost certain governmental and ‘medical’ excess. Be centered in your absolute right to freedom of conscience and bodily autonomy. This file is labeled an ‘interim update’ and dated ‘July’. More will surely follow. At least peruse the table of contents. ABN
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