"No freedom of speech": Arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov in France receives backlash

Pavel Durov, a 39-year-old billionaire cast as "Russia's Mark Zuckerberg," was arrested at Le Bourget airport outside Paris shortly after landing on a private jet late on Saturday from Azerbaijan.

Durov was arrested as part of an ongoing judicial investigation, and there was no political motive, French President Macron said in a post on X on Monday.

Estimated by Forbes to have a fortune of $15.5 billion, Durov said in April some governments had sought to pressure him, but the app should remain a neutral platform and not a "player in geopolitics."

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