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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 110 points 5 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 76 points 5 days ago

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 52 points 5 days ago

Whole of France? Whole of the EU.

[–] Insekticus@aussie.zone 33 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] sns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

And then guillotine? Pretty please?

[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 days ago

Oubliette is such a nice french word

[–] JailElonMusk@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 days ago

^ This guy gets it.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 days ago

Deliver him in chains to the Frenchies.

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 52 points 5 days ago

Sounds like X and Tesla should be banned in France

[–] soratoyuki@piefed.social 36 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 25 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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 points 5 days ago

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

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

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

[–] 0ndead@infosec.pub 21 points 5 days ago

Can we offer him up to France?

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 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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 points 3 days ago

He only adheres to Space Law now.

Is this the new version of admiralty law?

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 days ago

Are we going to see him holed up in an Equadorian embassy soon?

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 days ago

Well I hope he faces consequences

[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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)

[–] trashboat@piefed.social 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

What’s the next step now that he didn’t show?

[–] disorderly@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

https://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.

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

This guy billionaires.

[–] northernlights@lemmy.today 3 points 5 days ago

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