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Can we have a link? In France, at most you can get your account restricted (can't go into deficit and a sum is blocked) until the issue is resolved (99% because of unpaid taxes, sometimes the money is blocked by a judge until a judgement is passed). It's weird if the EU don't have a standard.

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Qonto is French and so is the commenter on Twitter.

What you are saying is not correct; perhaps you are confusing it with the right to an account?

https://www.banque-france.fr/fr/a-votre-service/particuliers...

Yes, exactly. French citizens have an inalienable right to a checking account, enforced by French government. I don't remember the exact law, but I know someone who was 'interdit bancaire' (took too much revolving credits in the 90s) and the local bank _had_ to let him open a new account (a very limited one).

Anyone living there, not just citizens.

That doesn't mean a bank can't close your account. It just means that if you have none, a bank can be told to give you one.

Look at what happened to Jacques Baud because he criticized the EU on the Ukranian war and is now considered a "pro-russia" and propagating "disinformation". [1]

I read what he wrote ("L’art de la guerre russe, comment l’Occident a conduit l’Ukraine à l’échec"), you can download it temporarily here : [2]. His book is absolutely not pro-russia nor pro-EU.

[1] https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/various/former-swiss-intelligen...

[2] https://www.swisstransfer.com/d/0117e2b4-8e70-4343-8097-7bfe...

The guy has a "Conspiracy theory and disinformation" section in his wikipedia page, that mentions 9/11.

Come on. That's your "totally not pro-russia" example ?

So being pro Russia justifies de-banking?

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