French authorities have arrested russian-born billionaire paval durov durov is the CEO of messaging app telegram which is highly popular and influential in Ukraine and Russia and the republics of the former Soviet Union the 39-year-old was arrested after his private jet arrived in Paris on Saturday durov faced Court in the French capital on Sunday after being detained following an investigation into his encrypted messaging service and a lack of moderators he's accused of failing to curb the criminal use of his platform and for not cooperating with police investigating the exploitation of children fraud drug trafficking and individuals promoting [Music] terrorism for the arrest of pav durov means that there is no freedom of speech that the freedom of speech in Europe is De Elon Musk is free Mark stukenberg is free but t p durov is now in prison why because he's Russian he's a Russian by nationality and he's Russian by his citizenship so he has been traced as a person to be a scapegoat for the West as an evil Russian and now basically uh they have hostage and they will try to Blackmail Russia they will try to Blackmail all the users of tegram that now they're not going to just gain control but they will probably try to block the network here in Russia I do believe that um dur p durov is a political prisoner that he is the victim of The Witch Hunt that the West did do for the people who are not simply minded as they are doesn't matter what you think about him personally he has said a lot of bad things about Russia he made certain claims he left Russia but he kept his citizenship which means that according of our constitution we're going to protect him