- selling drugs
- selling hacking/ddossing services
- posting beheading videos, latest one had Ukrainian soldiers head on a spike
- sending cruise missile targeting coordinates to military units
According to outraged russians those all among the things French prosecutors mentioned in arrest warrant.
The U.S. government doesn't like encrypted communications. But it's legally bound, by our Constitution and courts, in a way Paris is not.
Nobody has been fussing about Telegram in a serious way in America.
Edit: I added on a mention about the close intelligence relationship between France and USA, for those not in the know.
Not really, no. If we wanted to nab him for goodies, we'd use a country without the rule of law.
> with France being part of the 9-Eyes alliance with USA
Telegram is unencrypted by default. The IC has no reason to mess with it.
Also, it takes about a picosecond of studying Gallic-American relations to realise that Paris doesn't take instructions from Washington.
My understanding, unlike US companies, Telegram hasn't been co-operating with the EU? US companies are not perfect (see the hundreds of millions/billions of fines), but the US companies at least work with authorities.
non-cooperation with information from law enforcement of a foreign government is the same as the discourse about us-based tech not complying to chinese requests or those from US adversaries. that alone does not fly in the court of law, at least for rich and influential people.
the only thing to wonder is if there was an existing warrant issued against him in place much before he landed in france, and if so why he decided to travel there.
We literally had to pass a law because people kept doing that [1].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_of_Lawful_Commerce_...