If two men riding in the back of a bus are talking in whispers of a plan to rob a bank, is the bus driver or the owner of the bus criminally responsible? France law says “yes”.
If criminals have a telephone conversation on a landline about committing crimes, is the CEO of the phone company vulnerable to charges and prosecution? France law says ‘yes’.
In democratic countries, a core principle of democracy is the application of equal justice to all individuals. A person can only be deemed a criminal if a fact-finder determines that they have committed a crime beyond a reasonable doubt.
France, while pretending democracy, is now trying to convict a person for a crime it knows somebody else committed.
Lowest technology communication devices are harder to track
France is also attempting to remove all privacy in the free world, especially on personal electronic devices.
Meanwhile, Israel and the United States want to use those personal electronic devices implanted with explosives to kill or injure people they do not like as has been done in Syria, Lebanon and Iran.
“Do not buy anything that is American-made or made in Israel, or France,” suggests Dale Carter, the security director for The RINJ Foundation.
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“France is pursuing a fascist doctrine which adheres to an umbrella policy that allows France to harm persons it chooses, for crimes someone else has created, if they are Russian,” says Svetlana, an angry housewife in north Moscow.
France wants to test its theory on Telegram’s Pavel Valeryevich Durov under Paris’s new, unproven cybercrime law which assails persons who have not commit a crime but own the bus where communications for the crime took place, like the bus.
On 24 August 2024, Mr. Durov was detained at Le Bourget Airport by the French anti-fraud customs officers. The arrest occurred as Mr. Durov disembarked from his private plane, arriving in France from Azerbaijan. By 28 August, a French Court heard from a prosecutor who formalized six charges against Mr. Durov, encompassing his non-cooperation with authorities, alleged complicity in criminal activities, and the provision of cryptography services.
According to Wikipedia, over 185 national constitutions mention the right to privacy but that Natalia Krapiva, a lawyer at the digital rights group Access Now, said that French authorities could try to force Durov to provide Telegram’s encryption keys to decrypt private messages, “which Russia has already tried to do in the past”.
This charge, established by the 2023 law, is punishable by up to a 10-year prison term and a fine of 500,000 euros.
“Our members in France have expressed outrage at the move toward violating human rights to privacy and free speech,” notes Geraldine Frisque, spokesperson for The RINJ Foundation.
“Also, the principle of innocence until proven guilty and the burden of proof to show that an accused person actually their selves commit a crime, fundamentals inherent in all democracies, is thrown out the window,” said Ms. Frisque.
“Human rights apply to all women using the Telegram platform exchanging personal information about matters related to women.
“French authorities are now focusing on Telegram’s founder, Pavel Durov, utilizing the strict new cybercrime legislation known as the LOPMI law, which was enacted in January 2023. This law is unprecedented internationally, as it criminalizes technology executives if their platforms are used to enable illegal activities or transactions, and this is madness,” she added.
The law has not been tested in court, and there have been no convictions to date. There are concerns that the strategy might fail if judges are reluctant to penalize tech leaders for crimes they didn’t know about but that occurred on their platform.
Last month, thirty-nine-year-old billionaire Pavlov Durov was the subject of a formal investigation, facing charges such as “complicity in the administration of an online platform to facilitate an illicit transaction, in an organized gang.”
“Women find threatening the prospect of governments using intelligence goons and AI to monitor all of our conversations; and women detest governments like the USA and Israel planting explosives in our personal devices and then exploding them in our faces when we say or do something a political ‘power-freak’ doesn’t like. That is what is happening and the French government with its Emmanuel Macron demanding to be able to apply criminal charges against people who do not perform any criminal acts, can go to hell,” added the angry women’s rights activist.