Founder and CEO of Telegram arrested at French airport on multiple charges

Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of the messaging service, Telegram, was arrested as he disembarked his private jet on the tarmac at Le Bourget airport, Paris, the French channel TF1 reported on Saturday. Durov, 39, was said to have been arrested at 8pm French time, having flown in from Azerbaijan. The warrant on Durov was only valid if he was on French soil. "On [Telegram], he allowed an incalculable number of offenses and crimes to be committed, which he did nothing to moderate." Subscribe to The Jerusalem Post Newsletter Subscribe NowTucker Carlson, the American commentator, tweeted that Durov was arrested for trying "to exercise free speech."