He said he was surprised that. he was detained.
Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov has commented for the first time on his detention by French authorities.
The corresponding comment appeared on Durov's official Telegram page.
“I was told that I could be personally responsible for other people's illegal use of Telegram, since the French authorities did not receive responses from Telegram,” he said.
He also gave reasons why he was surprised about his detentions.
He stated that Telegram has an official representative in the EU who accepts and responds to EU requests, and the French authorities had many ways to contact him to ask for help in the fight against crime. ʼʼ
“If a country is unhappy with an Internet service, the established practice is to initiate a lawsuit against the service itself,” Duriv said.
Durov also noted that the sharp increase in the number of Telegram users to 950 million entailed problems that made it easier for attackers to abuse the platform.
Recall that it was previously reported that Telegram founder Pavel Durov was banned from leaving France for six months – until March 2025.
In addition, we previously reported that Telegram founder Pavel Durov was in Paris stated during interrogation that cooperated with French counterintelligence in the fight against terrorism.
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