The Embassy of the Russian Federation in Paris sent a note to the Foreign Ministry of Foreign Affairs with a request to provide consular access to the detained founder of the messenger Telegram Pavel Durov.
This was stated by the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Maria Zakharova on the air of the Russia-24 television channel.
“Our embassy in Paris immediately immediately, upon receipt of this information, contacted the local side, sending a note to the Foreign Ministry of Foreign Affairs with a request for access,” said the diplomat.
“The problem is that Pavel Durov has French citizenship. Accordingly, for Paris, for France, he is primarily a citizen of their country,” Zakharova said.
The representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry noted that Moscow will monitor the reaction of international organizations in connection with the detention of Pavel Durov in France and take into account their actions.
“The behavior and reaction of international organizations, which in other cases in relation to our country applied the entire complex of political, information and psychological, by the way, pressure, should be taken into account and taken into account in our work, unconditionally,” Zakharova assured.
According to her, the Russian side “will follow how they will show vigilance of human rights and guaranteeing freedom of speech.”
But first of all, the diplomat emphasized, Durov’s lawyers, who will now build a strategy to protect and support the co -founder of telegram.
should talk about the necessary steps.
“We have Russian legislation, which we will apply in this case in the same way as in other cases,” concluded the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry
The press service of the Russian Embassy in Paris reported that the diplomatic mission required the French authorities to ensure the observance of Durov’s rights, but so far Paris is evading interaction on this issue.
According to the Russian state media, Pavel Durov flew to France from Azerbaijan along with a bodyguard and an unnamed girl on a private plane on Saturday, August 24, at about 21.00 Moscow time. At the exit from Jet, he was met by gendarmes with the order for a search, which issued the National Directorate of the French Judicial Police on the basis of a preliminary investigation.
Durov was placed in custody. It is known that he is planned to be charged with several articles. Among the crimes of which the entrepreneur can be accused of, terrorism, fraud, money laundering and the distribution of pedophilian content, as well as drugs
Who is Pavel Durov?
The founder of the popular social network VKontakte Pavel Durov left Russia in 2014.
Durov has citizenship of France, the Russian Federation, the UAE and St. Kits and Nevis. His fortune is estimated at almost $ 15 billion.
The number of active users of telegrams, one of the popular applications in the world to exchange instant messages and social networks, is 900 million people.