Durov says rejected French intelligence chief’s request to ban Romanian conservatives

Telegram founder Pavel Durov has said that he refused to ban channels of Romanian conservatives ahead the presidential election in that country as requested by French intelligence chief Nicolas Lerner, Report informs via TASS.

"This spring at the Salon des Batailles in the Hotel de Crillon, Nicolas Lerner, head of French intelligence, asked me to ban conservative voices in Romania ahead of elections. I refused. We didn’t block protesters in Russia, Belarus, or Iran. We won’t start doing it in Europe," he wrote on his X page.

Earlier in the day, he said that a Western European government asked Telegram "to silence conservative voices in Romania" but he refused to do this.