The Times of Israel is liveblogging Sunday’s events as they unfold.
Telegram messaging app CEO Durov arrested in France — local media
Pavel Durov, billionaire founder and CEO of Telegram, has been arrested at the Bourget airport outside Paris under a warrant for offenses related to the popular messaging app, AFP, TF1 TV and BFM TV report, citing unnamed sources.
Telegram, particularly influential in Russia, Ukraine and the republics of the former Soviet Union, is ranked as one of the major social media platforms after Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok and Wechat. It aims to hit one billion users in the next year.
Based in Dubai, Telegram was founded by Russian-born Durov, 39. He left Russia in 2014 after refusing to comply with government demands to shut down opposition communities on his VK social media platform, which he sold.
Durov was traveling aboard his private jet, TF1 says on its website, adding that he was targeted by an arrest warrant in France as part of a preliminary police investigation.
TF1 and BFM both say the investigation is focused on a lack of moderators on Telegram, and that police consider that this situation allows criminal activity to go on undeterred on the messaging app.
Telegram does not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. The French Interior Ministry and police have no comment.
IDF says troops killed Palestinian who was shooting at army post from West Bank’s Jenin
Israeli forces killed a Palestinian gunman while he was shooting a short while ago at an army post from the area of the West Bank city of Jenin, the IDF says.
Forces are conducting searches in the area for another armed suspect who shot toward the post, the military adds.
French police arrest man suspected of attempted arson against synagogue
French police have arrested a man suspected of attempted arson against a synagogue in the southern France city of la Grande-Motte on Saturday, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin says on X.
German police arrest suspect in stabbing rampage, minister says
German police have arrested the man suspected of killing three people in a knife rampage at a street festival in the west of the country, a regional minister says.
“We have just arrested the true suspect,” North Rhine-Westphalia region interior minister Herbert Reul says on public television.