Golden Finance reported that Telegram CEO Pavel Durov posted on X: Last month, I was questioned by the police for four days after arriving in Paris. I was told that I might be personally responsible for the illegal use of Telegram by others because the French authorities had not received a response from Telegram. This is surprising for the following reasons: 1. Telegram has an official representative in the European Union who is responsible for accepting and responding to requests from the European Union. Its email address is public and anyone in the European Union can get it by searching for Telegram EU law enforcement address on Google. 2. The French authorities have multiple ways to contact me for assistance. As a French citizen, I am a frequent visitor to the French Consulate in Dubai. Not long ago, upon request, I personally helped them set up a hotline with Telegram to deal with terrorist threats in France. 3. If a country is dissatisfied with an Internet service, the usual practice is to bring legal action against the service itself. It is a simplistic approach to use laws before the smartphone era to accuse the CEO of third-party crimes committed on the platform he manages. Developing technical means is difficult enough in itself. Innovators would not develop new tools if they knew they could be held personally liable for potential misuse of those tools.