c/world · by HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works · 118d

Musk snubs interview summons by French prosecutors amid X probe

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crk151nn7j3o

Elon Musk has not attended a voluntary interview he was summoned to appear at in Paris, according to French authorities probing his platform X.

The company's offices were raided by the Paris prosecutor's cyber-crime unit in February over suspected criminal offences related to content on the platform.

Musk was given the date of 20 April for an interview as part of an investigation first launched in 2025 but later widened over concerns about X's chatbot Grok being used to create non-consensual sexual deepfake images.

The Paris prosecutor's office told the BBC in a statement on Monday - without naming Musk - it had "taken note of the absence of the people summoned".

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r00ty@kbin.life · 111 pts · 117d (7 replies)

Now block Twitter for the whole of France. It's the only correct thing to do.

comrade_twisty@feddit.org · 76 pts · 117d

Also add:

100% tariff on Tesla vehicles
no new Starlink sales in France
entry ban for the whole EU
ban GrokAI for 15 years

sns@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 53 pts · 117d

Whole of France? Whole of the EU.

Insekticus@aussie.zone · 33 pts · 117d (4 replies)

And put an arrest warrant out for him and throw him into the guillotine.

sns@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 34 pts · 117d (3 replies)

I'd prefer 20 years of hard labour in, oh I don't know, maybe an emerald mine..

edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 117d (1 reply)

And then guillotine? Pretty please?

TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 117d

Oubliette is such a nice french word

JailElonMusk@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 117d

^ This guy gets it.

favoredponcho@lemmy.zip · 52 pts · 117d

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soratoyuki@piefed.social · 36 pts · 117d (1 reply)

I mean, fuck Elon, but of course he's not going to attend a voluntary police interrogation. Who would?

Just arrest his ass.

finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 117d

Trump wouldn't let him be extradited.

ThePyroPython@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 117d (3 replies)

Honestly that's standard for a foreign national when appearing before government investigation committees, particularly one who doesn't think they'd do well when grilled by people with way more experience in arguing the point, see Mark Zuckerberg not attending his invite to a UK parliament select committee hearing.

It'd be a bold and stupid play for him to show up and incriminate himself further, though it would have been entertaining to watch the moment of realisation that he's in way over his head spread across his face.

givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 117d (1 reply)

They ask first...

If it comes to it, they can't try to extradite it. If musk gets out of that, it would only be by paying off trump and that won't last forever and comes with strings

Meanwhile it limits musk from pretty much every other country he'd want to go to.

Basically putting him on house arrest in America, and he'd hate that.

Maeve@kbin.earth · 9 pts · 117d

If the other governments weren't face-down-bottom-up in a bootlicking contest. See also: Benjamin Netanyahoo.

Malyca@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 117d

I still hope his ego won't take the hit and he'll go in the end

0ndead@infosec.pub · 21 pts · 117d

Can we offer him up to France?

switcheroo@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 117d (1 reply)

I wouldn't mess with the French. They'll just cut you off. Ban Muskrats bullshit and be done with it.

(Too bad guillotines aren't used anymore)

badgermurphy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 116d

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FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 117d

Well I hope he faces consequences

finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 117d

No surprises there. Musk has no balls. Combine that with his god complex, and the fact he thinks consequences are for lesser beings, I would've been more surprised if he had shown up.

melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 117d (1 reply)

Of course he did. He only adheres to Space Law now. Thankfully Artemis II laid the groundwork for a courthouse on the moon.

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 116d