[UPDATE-Aug 29] French Media Reported the Arrest of Telegram Founder Pavel Durov

According to their information, the police detained the founder of Telegram at the airport in Paris as he was exiting his private business jet.

The details about the reasons for the incident vary from publication to publication. However, one thing is clear: the true purpose is the desire to obtain certain tools to which the French authorities (and not only them) did not have access until now.

Regardless of further developments, the news will clearly become the main global topic this weekend and will subsequently affect both the work of the Telegram team and the global media sphere in general.

[UPDATE-Aug 29] French foreign ministry was against granting French citizenship to Durov