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The United Arab Emirates introduced late Monday it had requested the French authorities to permit consular entry to Telegram CEO Pavel Durov, who’s at present in police custody in Paris.
Durov, a Russian-born French-Emirati citizen, was arrested late Saturday evening and remains to be being held as a part of a probe into allegations regarding little one pornography, drug trafficking and arranged crime on the Telegram messaging platform, the Paris prosecutor’s workplace stated.
“The UAE is intently following the case of its citizen Pavel Durov, founding father of Telegram, who was arrested by the French authorities in Paris–Le Bourget Airport, emphasizing that the UAE has submitted a request to the Government of the French Republic to supply him with all the required consular companies in an pressing method,” the Abu Dhabi international ministry stated.
Durov’s arrest triggered a global outcry, with self-proclaimed free speech advocates like billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk denouncing the detention. French President Emmanuel Macron stated Monday that it was “on no account a political choice” to arrest Durov.
Telegram is closing in on a billion world customers and is a key communication device for political dissidents, gangsters and criminals, and on the battlefields of japanese Ukraine.
