Message Chief Pavel Durov captured at air terminal close to Paris, French media reports 

August 24, 2024/8:54 PM EDT

French police captured Wire President and pioneer Pavel Durov on Saturday at an air terminal close to Paris for supposed offenses connected with the famous informing application, French media revealed.

The French-Russian tycoon, 39, was confined at Le Bourget air terminal north of the French capital on Saturday night, one of the authorities told AFP, talking on state of secrecy.

French TV media sources TF1 television and BFM television likewise announced the capture, refering to anonymous sources, as indicated by Reuters.

He had recently gone from Baku, in Azerbaijan, another source near the case told AFP.

Durov was supposed to show up in court on Sunday.

Document - - Message organizer and President Pavel Durov conveys his feature meeting during day two of the Portable World Congress at the Fira Gran Through complex in Barcelona, Spain, on Feb. 23, 2016.

Message didn't promptly answer a solicitation from Reuters for input, and the French Inside Service and French police had no remark by the same token.

France's OFMIN, an organization entrusted with forestalling savagery against minors, had given a capture warrant for Durov as the planning office in a fundamental examination concerning claimed offenses including misrepresentation, drug dealing, cyberbullying, coordinated wrongdoing and advancement of psychological oppression, one of the sources near the case told AFP.

Durov is associated with neglecting to make a move to control the crook utilization of his foundation.

"Enough of Message's exemption," expressed one of the examiners, adding they were shocked Durov came to Paris realizing he was a needed man.

Durov began Message in 2013 and left Russia in 2014 after he was expelled from VKontakte — a famous person to person communication site in Russia which he-helped to establish — subsequent to being compelled by the Kremlin to surrender clients' very own information, which he wouldn't do.

In a 2016 meeting with "an hour," Durov said he was "frightened" when he discovered that Message — which was intended to be vigorously encoded so legislatures can't get to clients' very own information — was being utilized by psychological militant gatherings like the Islamic State to impart.

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"I'm by and by for the protection side," Durov said in that interview when found out if protection concerns offset security chances. "However, one thing that ought to be clear is that you can't make only one special case for policing imperiling private interchanges of countless individuals since encryption is either secure or not."