The speculation on this situation is crazy. People are losing their minds over the idea of Durov being arrested over crimes committed on his platform, but we don’t even know the details. For all we know he could have been completely complicit. Hold your horses people.
This and in addition, I have not seen proof that he knew about a pending arrest when he went to France. Many commenters and media paint him somewhere on the spectrum between arrogant and stupid, when it is not clear at all that he had a chance to avoid the situation.
I don't know him but the idea that an individual CEO would be handled in this way seems extreme and calls into question the actual motives of the French government.
> For all we know he could have been completely complicit.
I guess he could be an international terrorist drug dealing pimp.
> Hold your horses people.
The French governments actions and communication on the subject has created this environment. They can easily alter it if they choose.
It's not for the government to communicate, and criminal investigations are secret in France. So prosecutors don't have to make any public statements or release any documents (and in fact they shouldn't) but in such high profile cases they are likely to make a general statement to placate the media.
The man has four passports and I'm curious about how he got the French one... This is on his Wikipedia page:
"Durov was naturalized as a French citizen in August 2021, giving him European Union citizenship. Le Monde described the naturalisation as "mysterious", since Durov had not resided in France apart from brief visits. Le Monde suggested that Durov was naturalised via the rarely used "merit foreigner" procedure that is awarded directly by the French government to people viewed to have contributed exceptionally to France's international influence or international economic relations." [1]
Seems obvious that there is much more than meets the eye...
He wasn't arrested by the French government. He was arrested by the law because he's a French citizen who provides a service used by criminals, and he has refused to act on lawful requests.
