Musk snubs interview summons by French prosecutors amid X probe
(www.bbc.com)
from HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works to world@lemmy.world on 20 Apr 17:41
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from HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works to world@lemmy.world on 20 Apr 17:41
https://sh.itjust.works/post/58850052
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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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.
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.
If the other governments weren't face-down-bottom-up in a bootlicking contest. See also: Benjamin Netanyahoo.
I still hope his ego won’t take the hit and he’ll go in the end
Now block Twitter for the whole of France. It's the only correct thing to do.
Also add:
Whole of France? Whole of the EU.
Sounds like X and Tesla should be banned in France
What’s the next step now that he didn’t show?
Nothing.
This guy billionaires.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_in_absentia
France has absolutely no qualms about trying and sentencing someone who doesn’t bother showing up for legal proceedings.
The most likely outcome here is a limp dick fine and a lot of hot air about justice etc.
I mean, fuck Elon, but of course he’s not going to attend a voluntary police interrogation. Who would?
Just arrest his ass.
Trump wouldn’t let him be extradited.
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)
Can we offer him up to France?
Well I hope he faces consequences
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.
Are we going to see him holed up in an Equadorian embassy soon?
Of course he did. He only adheres to Space Law now. Thankfully Artemis II laid the groundwork for a courthouse on the moon.
Is this the new version of admiralty law?
Deliver him in chains to the Frenchies.