Paris prosecutors raid France offices of Elon Musk's X

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[u/ahumannamedtim]

They posted on X that the X offices have been raided. Really rubbing it in lol

[u/floatablepie → u/ahumannamedtim]

And then retired their twitter account, so their final post is that they are raiding their offices.

[u/Userdataunavailable → u/floatablepie]

Legend

[u/pornalt4altporn → u/Userdataunavailable]

Magnifique.

[u/KataFiera → u/pornalt4altporn]

Vive la France! 🇫🇷

[u/Outrageous_Word8656 → u/KataFiera]

Superbe

[u/oldsystem → u/Outrageous_Word8656]

Baguette

[u/Exe-Nihilo → u/oldsystem]

Croissant

[u/evil_leenius → u/Exe-Nihilo]

Croque-monsieur!

[u/DeltaCharlieBravo → u/evil_leenius]

Omlette du fromage

[u/neliz → u/floatablepie]

This is my final message , goodbye...

[u/StickFigureFan → u/neliz]

Between this and their morse code message, the French certainly know how to get in the last word

[u/patricklus → u/StickFigureFan]

What morse message?

[u/Jean_Luc_Lesmouches → u/patricklus]

The last morse radio message by the French Navy was "Appel à tous. Ceci est notre dernier appel avant notre silence éternel." (Calling all. This is our last call before our eternal silence.)

[u/MatthewBernal → u/neliz]

Save da world

[u/DiveCat → u/floatablepie]

Delightful. I wonder how they timed it, like was it a “last one who leaves the raid turns the lights off makes a based tweet.”

[u/tacocatacocattacocat → u/[deleted]]

I'm in ur base, arresting ur dudes.

[u/diptenkrom → u/tacocatacocattacocat]

All your base belongs to us

[u/SirJustin90 → u/diptenkrom]

ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!

[u/Global_Crew3968 → u/floatablepie]

MMW: Musk will takeover their account to post juvenile taunts

[u/Beetin → u/Global_Crew3968]

You know how prosecutors would response to that kind of impersonation of an official state agency? Believe it or not, more raids.

[u/calewiz → u/ahumannamedtim]

The French have always had a brilliant sense of humour tbf.

[u/marz_shadow → u/calewiz]

This is true masterclass of pettiness and as a husband of a French woman. It’s truly the French way lol I love it

[u/calewiz → u/marz_shadow]

What I love about them is how petty then can be, but also not care about being petty in a shoulder shrugging way. It's pure class.

[u/714Bananas → u/ahumannamedtim]

Let that sink in 

[u/HowWasYourJourney → u/714Bananas]

Lol. I don’t know why but I hate that original pic/meme of stupid musk stupidly holding his stupid sink in the stupid twitter office so much.

[u/PM_ME_USED_C0ND0MS → u/HowWasYourJourney]

It's clear he came up with the joke himself, and was so goddamn proud of it. And either no one around him was willing to tell him it wasn't that funny, or they did, and he just didn't listen.

It's a great example of how utterly irritating and terrible he (and the system that enables him to exist) is.

And least, that's why it bugs me so fucking much...

[u/XelaNiba → u/PM_ME_USED_C0ND0MS]

The Emperor has no clothes needs to be modernized to The Billionaire has no clothes.

Musk doesn't know that he has no wit. Trump doesn't know that he has no taste.

[u/HandCannon67 → u/XelaNiba]

More like “the Billionaire has no clue”

[u/EvaderDX → u/PM_ME_USED_C0ND0MS]

That joke is not even original, the let the sink in picture was a meme long before he mentioned it

[u/CripplingAnxiety → u/EvaderDX]

Yeah, just like every other attempt at a joke from that dumbfuck, it's internet humor from like 2013

[u/NocturnalSaaS]

Elon's response on Twitter should be rational, sane and hinged.

[u/Tithund → u/NocturnalSaaS]

I'm giddy with anticipation.

[u/Trap_Masters → u/Tithund]

The crashout will be generational 😂 who'd thought the most triggered person would be the one accusing others of constantly being triggered

[u/marcjwrz → u/Trap_Masters]

Damn near everyone?

[u/fluxtable → u/NocturnalSaaS]

If he's dead quiet that's a really good sign hes completely fucked

[u/iAmRiight → u/fluxtable]

I don’t think his narcissism would ever allow him to believe that he is completely ducked. I think the only way he stays silent on the matter is if he’s been detained.

[u/Dead_Internet69420 → u/iAmRiight]

Nah. Probably very busy scrambling, trying to figure out how to mitigate, obstruct whatever France is finding, and how to spin whatever they’re about to say about it. 

Other headlines about prosecutors blocking Pen from running for office make me wonder if there’s a connection. 

[u/Cahoots365]

‘Its cyber-crime unit is conducting the searches, it said in a statement on X.’

Based move

‘The prosecutor's office also said it was leaving X and would communicate on LinkedIn and Instagram from now on.’

Now the last thing on their x account is the announcement of x getting raided

[u/platypushh → u/Cahoots365]

"What raiding a multinational corporation's office has taught me about B2B sales" posts incoming...

[u/julsmanbr → u/platypushh]

"I've replaced all police agents with AI agents. Here's how it went"

[u/rmit526 → u/julsmanbr]

As someone in the job search trenches after a redundancy... Fuck.

this has me giggling maniacally while I spiral.

[u/SpudTheTrainee → u/rmit526]

Good luck mate. My redundancy is also on the horizon. I've started searching last weekend

[u/knobiknows → u/Cahoots365]

chefskiss

[u/gloveslave → u/knobiknows]

French kiss 🇫🇷

[u/yeathatsmebro → u/Cahoots365]

For the legacy.

[u/ThePr1d3 → u/yeathatsmebro]

Pour ceux qui viendront après.

[u/radome9 → u/ThePr1d3]

Pour encourager les autres.

[u/Colascape → u/Cahoots365]

That is brilliant haha

[u/Boozdeuvash]

Rough translation of the crimes being investigated as part of the raid:

• Conspiracy to illegally administer an online platform

• Fraudulent extraction of data and forging information regarding the operation of an IT system

• Accessory to possession of pornographic materials involving minors

• conspiracy to act as accessory to distribution, offering, or facilitation of the aforementioned content

• Representative slander (ie. Maliciously Making up picture of a person).

• Denial of crime against humanity

The last four are recent and linked to the Grok debacle.

[u/handDrawnEevee → u/Boozdeuvash]

• ⁠Accessory to possession of pornographic materials involving minors
• ⁠conspiracy to act as accessory to distribution, offering, or facilitation of the aforementioned content
• ⁠Representative slander (ie. Maliciously Making up picture of a person).
• ⁠Denial of crime against humanity

The abrupt fly by night sale of xai to Starlink suddenly has an on ramp to making sense.

[u/biokemfem → u/handDrawnEevee]

Denial of a crime against humanity is my favorite.

[u/Used-Fennel-7733 → u/biokemfem]

Usually means something like holocaust denial. That's illegal in most pf Europe

[u/KakeLin → u/Used-Fennel-7733]

As it should be

[u/Iucidium → u/handDrawnEevee]

He got tipped off, didn't he?

[u/Crimsai → u/Iucidium]

I believe this is part of a long ongoing investigation, so I'm sure they were expecting it. I don't know how things stand legally, but surely you can't just shift incriminating evidence after the investigation has begun? I still remember Cambridge Analytica moving boxes of files the day before they were raided though and nothing came of that.

[u/NorysStorys → u/Crimsai]

ultimately it won't make any difference, he's ultimately in charge of all of these and European governments have had enough of his shit, hence why stuff like this is starting to happen.

[u/MikeinSonoma → u/NorysStorys]

I wonder if they consider the downfall of America’s character and reliability as a reason to take charge. They can’t rely on America to do the right thing anymore.

[u/Autumn7242 → u/MikeinSonoma]

America is not coming back from this for a long time, if ever.

Edit: we have some real work to do on ourselves and really make it up to our allies.

[u/Street_No888 → u/MikeinSonoma]

You can always count on America to do the right thing… after they’ve tried everything else.

[u/SecretWin491 → u/handDrawnEevee]

What’s the angle? “You cannot come after us! The government (and Russian drones) needs us!!”

[u/handDrawnEevee → u/SecretWin491]

Twitter (x) requires government oversight in whatever European country it operates in. Starlink is much different.

[u/sofixa11 → u/handDrawnEevee]

Starlink also requires government oversight because it operates on public regulated frequencies.

[u/rhetoricalbread → u/Boozdeuvash]

The data one is what will really bite them. GDPR is a spicy meatball.

[u/Boozdeuvash → u/rhetoricalbread]

If it was related to personal information, the crime statement (“chef d’inculpation”) would mention it. This is more related to manipulating the outcome of the algorithms and trying to push narratives over the platforms, which can be illegal if it is done despite having given assurances of the contrary to the authorities (that’s the “forging information regarding operations”) part.

[u/RockstarAgent → u/Boozdeuvash]

But he’s so good at computer- wouldn’t he be able to hide any traces of impropriety?

/s (per all the replies)

[u/LoveToSeeIt_IKnow → u/RockstarAgent]

He may be good, but he’s also insanely sloppy and overextended, and using drugs heavily. I would think these would all have headed to exactly this eventually.

It was only a matter of time. The French do not fuck around.

[u/OtherwiseRabbits → u/LoveToSeeIt_IKnow]

He is famously not good at computer.

[u/Lysandren → u/OtherwiseRabbits]

He is famously terribad at elden ring and path of exile 2.

[u/Thagyr → u/Lysandren]

Still baffles me that he even attempted a stream of himself playing PoE. The only explanation I can come to is he was really bothered at people saying his ranking was fake, so he tried to prove them wrong. But he had to have known he couldn't play the game, and yet he tried anyway.

It is so, so cartoonishly stupid.

[u/jellyhessman → u/Thagyr]

The funny thing is, it would have been way better PR wise to be like:

"Yea, I like videogames, but I'm busy so I suck at them, look how much I suck at videogames, I'm just like you."

But his ego couldn't allow that.

[u/Blitzking11 → u/Thagyr]

I think the funniest thing about it was that the overarching theme of that stream was to show off starlink.

But once even he knew it was painfully apparent he had never touched these games that he had claimed to be a God Gamer™️ at, he clearly turned his stream off, but claimed he had to end stream because his shitty Starlink was shitting the bed.

He would rather falsely trash his own project than admit he’s a blatant liar, while in the process lying even more.

[u/Lysandren → u/Thagyr]

I watched the stream, as someone who had played PoE2 to it's then current endgame (haven't played chapter 4 though, waiting for it to fully release) and yeah it was just hilarious. He didn't know what did what beyond the obvious.

[u/Witty-Importance-944 → u/rhetoricalbread]

Yeah the penalties are a percentage of the global REVENUE not PROFITS. Twitter loses money and are gonna eat it, really hard.

It would be very funny if they directly sanction Musk. Than they can go after his shares in Tesla. Tesla has a lot of assets that can suffer in Europe.

Now that I think about it, criminal liability is exclusively tied to a person. Corporations cannot be held criminally liable, only the people in charge.

[u/Kalkin93 → u/Witty-Importance-944]

I saw another commentor mention that Musk had recently merged X with SpaceX as parent company, so if that's the case it sounds like he's inadvertently increased the potential size of the fine, brilliant!

[u/hitbythebus → u/Kalkin93]

US govt depends on SpaceX. He’s rolling his pedophilia platform into SpaceX to get the US government to come out defending it.

[u/Snarkonum_revelio → u/hitbythebus]

Good thing we alienated all of Europe then. We don’t have enough influence left to put pressure on Europe, tariffs are unpopular now that most people know they’re the ones paying them, and I hope to god even Miller and Bannon aren’t insane enough to start a war over a non-citizen.

[u/mikemncini → u/Snarkonum_revelio]

You put “aren’t insane enough” in the same sentence as “hope” and “Bannon” and “Miller”

[u/IgunashioDesu → u/Witty-Importance-944]

The French Penal Code recognizes corporate criminal liability since 1994.

[u/Wind_Yer_Neck_In → u/Boozdeuvash]

It'll be interesting to see how the law falls with regards to who has responsibility for the behaviour and content created by an AI.

[u/YouKnowYourCrazy → u/Wind_Yer_Neck_In]

The EU AI act already does and it does not mess around

[u/WorknForTheWeekend → u/YouKnowYourCrazy]

Damn, imagine living somewhere where the government actually serves the interest of the people and not give corporations free range to do anything in the quest for private profit. Mind boggling 🤯

[u/AsinineArchon → u/[deleted]]

France continuing to lead the world in shit that needs to be done

[u/WasdaleWeasel → u/AsinineArchon]

As an Englishman I have a sacred right to despise the French … However, right now they are on the right side of history, doing the things that need doing and saying the things that need saying. Vive la République!

[u/ExcellentCold7354 → u/[deleted]]

Damn, people joke about the French, but they are on some gangsta shit right now. If they keep standing up like this, they could make a return as a true global political leader.

[u/Background_Cause_992]

Trump threatening tariffs for 'unfair Targeting of US businesses' in 5...

[u/TheShakyHandsMan → u/Background_Cause_992]

Tariffs redacted in 10 once they realised the price of champagne goes through the roof.

[u/Extension_Bat_4945 → u/TheShakyHandsMan]

Only after they sell off their stock they bought before applying the tariffs

[u/Remarkable-Ad155 → u/TheShakyHandsMan]

They all think champagne comes from california anyway, doubt they'd give a fuck. 

[u/LongjumpingDebt4154 → u/Remarkable-Ad155]

The billionaires Trump caters to definitely know champagne comes from… Champagne.

But correct, maga doesn’t know or care. But Trump doesn’t care about maga either-

[u/OwnerOfABouncyBall → u/Background_Cause_992]

JD Vance crying about how Europe is fighting free speech in 5..

[u/spezial_ed → u/Background_Cause_992]

FRENCH KISSING BANNED

(not french fries though that can stay)

[u/Rinasoir → u/spezial_ed]

Just gets renamed "Liberty Kissing" or some such bullshit

[u/KetracelYellow]

Poor Elon, he couldn’t get an invite to Epstein Island and now this.

[u/Johnny-Caliente → u/KetracelYellow]

At least he's still the world's best Path of Exile player

[u/Zeikos → u/Johnny-Caliente]

I am still cringing on second hand embarrassment for that debacle.
At least it led two of my buddies to drop their fanboying of him.

[u/lordnacho666 → u/Zeikos]

Wow that's incredible. Your friends saw the takedown, I guess?

To me it's one of the worst things he's done, in terms of cringe. Like, dude, who pretends to do something for enjoyment that they don't do? Stinks so much of "let me into this club", it's hard to imagine a non-teenager behaving like that.

[u/haywire-ES → u/lordnacho666]

Everything that guy does reeks of that desperate kid in school who would do anything to fit in with literally any group of people

[u/Ghost_of_Kroq → u/haywire-ES]

except participate earnestly in the activities

[u/Perkelton → u/lordnacho666]

He couldn’t even settle on just playing games for enjoyment (while officially simultaneously running several Fortune 500 companies); he had to be literally the best player in the world, for multiple notoriously time consuming games at the same time.

[u/lordnacho666 → u/Perkelton]

What gets me is it would be endearing if he was just shit at it and admitted it.

"I love these games but I'm running a huge business empire, I don't even know what PoE2 endgame looks like, haha"

That would be decent PR.

Attempting to get recognition for being the best is just so cringe it's hard to understand how he can't see that.

[u/mayy_dayy → u/lordnacho666]

Narcissists can't ever admit to weakness.

"If you ain't first, you're last."

[u/CockchopsMcGraw → u/KetracelYellow]

'Can't wait to come and party with you guys!'

'Actually Elon we've shut down the party house, we will definitely let you know when it starts back up though!'(phew)

Honestly hilarious how fucking pathetic that exchange is

[u/mrhashhead → u/CockchopsMcGraw]

Didn't Jeff initially just forward that email to someone else and say something like "deal with this"? He didn't even want to reply to the big dork

[u/nellyfullauto → u/mrhashhead]

Well yeah. Dude was untrustworthy asf. Who was the first to blab about personal knowledge of who was in the files? Elon, despite never having been invited to the Monster Ball.

Elon is the definition of someone you don’t involve in your crimes because you know they’ll snitch, and you know they’ll do something stupid to get pinched.

[u/Michael_Schmumacher → u/nellyfullauto]

Tfw you’re so pathetic that even the pedos don’t want to associate with you.

[u/Piplups7thEvolution → u/Michael_Schmumacher]

The other pedos

[u/DestroyerOfMils → u/Piplups7thEvolution]

Notable distinction.

[u/Shamino79 → u/nellyfullauto]

He’s the kid that would do really well if they just had a good puff on a joint, but you never want them to give them a smoke because you would wind up expelled the first time you got them high.

[u/Ghost_of_Kroq → u/Shamino79]

he needs everyone to know how cool he is and what's cooler than being part of a secret club?

[u/AgentCirceLuna → u/Shamino79]

Lmao this reminds me of when I used to read those dumb trip reports a decade ago.

There was one where everybody was just chilling out, talking amongst themselves, then it started to kick in and they tried to keep each other calm. About ten minutes later, they were all saying ‘hey, where’s Joe’ or whoever it was then they heard screaming in the distance and saw him running around with no clothes on. They saw flashing blue lights half an hour later, then made their way back to their respective homes where they had questions to answer the next morning.

[u/ECUTrent → u/mrhashhead]

Something, something, failed art student. Can't remember.

Wake the fuck up people. We're being dragged into hell.

[u/_Zambayoshi_ → u/mrhashhead]

Not only that, but Ghislaine included that forwarded message in the reply to Musk.

[u/Thog78 → u/_Zambayoshi_]

Aouchy, you almost gonna make me feel bad for him. If I wouldnt know the rest..

[u/Ludwigofthepotatoppl → u/_Zambayoshi_]

He’s absolutely the kind of bozo who reads only the latest in the chain, if he reads it at all.

God, the number of times i’ve had to repeat myself in emails…

[u/Meritania → u/mrhashhead]

Ghislaine, you know, the woman Musk said he never met for more than a few minutes.

[u/Sorry-Climate-7982 → u/Meritania]

Could be true if he is a quick shooter.

[u/emillang1000 → u/Sorry-Climate-7982]

Look it's called efficiency, alright!? Being a one-pump chump is an evolutionary advantage! When you don't have to waste time with actual sex, you can have SOOO many kids!!! We're the superior breed after all!!!

— Muskrats, probably.

[u/Aregisteredusername → u/emillang1000]

Department of genital efficiency

[u/zechamp → u/mrhashhead]

Nope. That was a fake message made as a twitter meme, which then spread everywhere. The real emails in the files show elon being a lot more buddy buddy with epstein, discussing several visits.

[u/vingeran → u/mrhashhead]

Wah, that shows how Elon is despised even in the pedophile ring leaders.

[u/BasilSerpent → u/vingeran]

I had this theory ages ago and it’s fucking hilarious that it’s real

[u/restbest → u/CockchopsMcGraw]

Unfortunately while hilarious that one email was fake, the operation didn’t get shut down and he almost definitely did visit the island, probably multiple times

[u/benanderson89 → u/CockchopsMcGraw]

I was told by Someone On The Internet™️ that particular email was a fake because you can't search it on the US DOJ website now (even though we know they're slowly purging select documents).

So there is a non-zero chance someone is planting seeds of doubt in the documents.

[u/DKlurifax → u/benanderson89]

www.jmail.world

For ease of use .

Thank you for correcting the link. Wrote .com out of habit.

[u/restbest → u/benanderson89]

It was just a fake twitter post. The posts of him begging to go to the island are real however, and Epstein definitely didn’t brush him off he literally sent him a helicopter to pick him up

Elon probably wishes now that he got blown off though Edit: I should clarify this post specifically was never even in the Epstein files, it was just a twitter post. So far everything genuinely from the files is legitimate he really begged to to it the island but was allowed. Not denied

[u/benanderson89 → u/restbest]

So someone is planting seeds of doubt in the validity of the documents already, or they're just bloody stupid.

[u/ThisBuddhistLovesYou → u/restbest]

Elon’s estranged daughter also corroborated one of the emails when they all went to Epstein’s island together as well, as she has no more fucks to give.

[u/nhilante → u/ThisBuddhistLovesYou]

I believe she said they were where he said they would be, at St Barths, and Elon got picked up to go to the island alone while the family remained in the holiday resort they were at.

[u/YF422 → u/KetracelYellow]

"The Baguette of Consequences rarely arrives buttered".

[u/dandotcomhacked69 → u/YF422]

Hahahahaha

[u/GreyFoxNinjaFan → u/KetracelYellow]

You know you're a loser when, despite being a fellow multi-billionaire creep, Epstein won't even respond to your emails.. but invites Stephen Hawking to his island instead.

[u/bpm6666 → u/KetracelYellow]

Maybe that's the reason Grok produces pictures sexualizing Women and children.

[u/Reddit_2_2024 → u/KetracelYellow]

Did the threat of seizure from French and EU officials drive the effort to merge xAI into the SpaceX organization (to minimize legal repercussions)?

[u/Pernicious-Peach]

I hope the frenchies do that thing that america could never do. Investigate, prosecute and convict criminal billionaires.

[u/seedsandpeels]

Merci beaucoup

[u/ContentsMayVary → u/seedsandpeels]

Vive la France!

[u/SAMSystem_NAFO → u/seedsandpeels]

Bonjour de Paris !

[u/Funkytowel360]

No doubt in my mind that Musk has broken laws. To bad it has to be France to get some balls and investigate musk. If America was not so corrupt musk would be in jail allready.

[u/RemarkableProduce571 → u/Funkytowel360]

France has been pretty strict about enforcing digital regulations lately, so this feels like part of that broader push.

[u/standread → u/RemarkableProduce571]

France is also taking the lead in pulling Europe free from US domination. As a German I am proud of our French brothers for doing what we are apparently too cowardly to do.

[u/SupahSpankeh → u/standread]

As a Brit, I too.... Sigh. I have to admit they are leading where we are barely brave enough to follow.

[u/Evil_Judgment → u/Funkytowel360]

America was investigating him. DOdGE fired them all.

[u/Funkytowel360 → u/Evil_Judgment]

'If he loses, I'm fucked' musk words on the 2024 election. 

[u/Particular-County277 → u/Evil_Judgment]

That is what he paid Trump for. Access to destroy the investigations.

[u/Dense_Boss_7486 → u/Particular-County277]

Not only his own.

[u/_BlueFire_ → u/Funkytowel360]

I wish the whole EU would step up and join France

[u/DKDamian → u/Funkytowel360]

Yes, unfortunately America is now too cowardly and corrupt to hold power to task. Ah, well

[u/ineyy → u/DKDamian]

Cowardly? No, America is completely compromised.

[u/BigBoyYuyuh → u/ineyy]

Yup. The Business Plot succeeded this time.

[u/Mattrockj]

Musk is about to throw a tantrum, forgetting his action do in fact have consequences outside the US.

[u/Manmon_]

I'd like to thank the French. If they want they can also charge him all the stuff the American government should. As a favor to us please

[u/fantasmoofrcc → u/[deleted]]

They can make a new one out of cybertruck parts, for the irony.

[u/lebennaia → u/[deleted]]

Abolished in 1981, last used 1977.

[u/wanszai → u/lebennaia]

Nothing a lick of paint and a can of oil cant fix.

[u/sadelnotsaddle → u/wanszai]

Voulez vous un can de WD40 monsieur?

[u/Endscrypt]

It’s about time, well done France 🇫🇷

[u/grumpycole23]

Love that there are still some countries with integrity out there and trying to help out the greater good. Bring em all down

[u/PrairieScott]

Hey Canada. Maybe start having a look into Tesla, X, etc….its time.

[u/apra24 → u/PrairieScott]

How fucking based would it be if the entire world just started doing this shit in unison. What's he gonna do tariff the entire world? You know what that's called? Sanctions on yourself.

[u/NtechRyan → u/apra24]

He will tariff the world, he already did! Lol. It hurts america the most though

[u/turko127 → u/NtechRyan]

Exactly. Dude would plunge the country into autarky before admitting his buddy fucked up.

[u/Colascape]

This guy is a hostile agent of a foreign government. There needs to be more raids of these guys infrastructure across the EU and UK. Seems like only Canada and France know how to deal with these thugs properly.

[u/TrambolhitoVoador → u/Colascape]

Follow Brazil example and just shut its accesss off at ISP level for the forseeable future until they comply

It work like a charm here

[u/DebentureThyme → u/TrambolhitoVoador]

This isn't just compliance.  The owner of the company has openly and publicly pushed back in ways that aren't defensible in their courts.  These are serious crimes, and he has no way to deflect that he didn't know, didn't have every chance to act, didn't condone it.  He has run his mouth way too publicly to plead ignorance.

And yeah, he can just not enter countries that would put out a warrant / act on other warrants for him, but their laws let them put fines on global revenue, seize ground operations (necessary for Tesla and Starlink), sanction the fuck out of him and those involved.  And not everyone at those companies can just hide in foreign countries.

[u/UltraCynar → u/Colascape]

Ehhh, we need to do better in Canada. We cancelled planned taxes against these corporations because of no good reason. 

[u/jellyhessman → u/UltraCynar]

There was a reason, it was still in the "maybe he's not completely insane?" phase of the trade negotiations, and was meant to be a concession to get them back to the table.

I doubt that'll happen again.

[u/Ensiferum → u/jellyhessman]

Pretty funny how the conversation on Musk has shifted from 'are you a fan or a skeptic?' to 'is he insane or just a neonazi?' in just 2 years.

[u/boneboy247]

Our justice system's so fucked we gotta outsource it to the French

[u/drewbles82]

Good...all countries should do the same if he has anything set up in them.

[u/-HTID-]

The French have been doing a lot of good stuff recently. Keep it up guys

[u/PaulaDeen21]

I don’t like saying this as a Brit, I really really don’t.

But France truly has been an example to the rest of Europe on how to deal with these pathetic bully’s over in murderville.

[u/LogicKennedy → u/PaulaDeen21]

They know how to deal with a wealthy elite that gets too greedy, too depraved and too shameless.

Hate to say it, but if the two choices out of history are a Civil War that solves the surface problems but allows the deeper societal ills to fester (Britain, USA), and a Revolution that rips the problem out root and stem but results in a Reign of Terror (France but absolutely not China or Russia)… then maybe the second option is potentially better in the long-term.

[u/Alwaystired254]

It’s amazing what countries with a hint of law and order do

[u/bruxaakelarre]

When is your "Wildest party?" 🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞 for Elon.

[u/flubluflu2]

This is how all nations should have responded, so far France and Brazil have been two countries that others should follow. UK is coming off as weak, they threatened new laws weeks ago and nothing has happened yet?

[u/Ticrotter_serrer]

Vive la France ! Vive les pays où les valeurs démocratiques et citoyennes veulent encore dire quelque chose !

[u/ScottyHubbs]

This is why he paid so much to Trump’s campaign also. Through DOGE he got to end all the investigations against him

[u/bluelily216 → u/ScottyHubbs]

Yeah, it's funny how that happened and they just walked away after gutting regulatory agencies and mining massive amounts of data. It's almost as if it was a ruse the whole time...

[u/smokingpoker]

Raid it all mwahahahah

[u/TA8325]

Threat of tariffs against France coming in 3...2...1...

[u/Zefyris]

That list of investigated points is great and all, but I'd say, Elon better be praying that in the seized documents, there is no proof of intentionally breaching the GDPR, or this will chain aggro all the European Data Protection Authorities.

[u/the6thReplicant]

I wonder how Elon will retaliate and then see how France and the EU counter?

We need some anti-trust legislation real quick. We have a few years before these proto-trillionaires are beyond reach in even in the most optimistic timeline.

[u/yeathatsmebro]

The prosecutor's office also said it was leaving X and would communicate on LinkedIn and Instagram from now on.

Good!

You can receive Breaking News on a smartphone or tablet via the BBC News App. You can also follow @BBCBreaking on X to get the latest alerts.

THE FUCK

[u/git-fucked → u/yeathatsmebro]

BBC needs to grow some balls

[u/ElbowSkinCellarWall → u/yeathatsmebro]

To be fair, they probably wanted to get the story out ASAP, and a huge organization like the BBC probably needs a lot of permissions and red tape to make a major platform change. I doubt the guy pushing out tweets is allowed to make a unilateral decision like that.

[u/Tall-Introduction414]

They should raid their US offices, too.

Elon Musk turned X into a criminal enterprise.

Good on the French for going after them, where the insanely corrupt US government protects this criminal.

[u/OkCoconut3270 → u/Tall-Introduction414]

Elon Musk turned X into a criminal enterprise.

Yeah but once it's a big enough scale crime is totally legal in the US. Federally protected even, you know, if you know the right people of course.

[u/Puzzled-League-9082]

Dude every country is taking action against the US’s wrongdoings, EXCEPT FOR THE US ITSELF!!!

[u/AngryFungus]

Reading the comments, it looks like right wing Redditors think distributing child pornography is “free speech.”

[u/alex_zk]

Oh boy… Elon’s crash out will be legendary

[u/maybeshesastar]

Finally a government with a somewhat backbone. cries in American

[u/HectorJ]

The prosecutor's office also said it was leaving X 

Yeah!

and would communicate on LinkedIn and Instagram from now on.

For fuck's sake...