Last month, Pavel Durov’s arrest at Le Bourget airport in Paris ignited a flurry of speculation about the judicial and political dynamics underlying the apprehension. Was the American national security apparatus reigning in a wayward asset? Was Macron serving up a cold dish of revenge for Telegram’s role in torpedoing recent French elections? Were the Russians involved? And did the UAE freeze a billion-dollar deal to buy French fighter jets to pressure France to release him?
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