Le Canard enchaîné is apparently a partly satirical newspaper that regularly breaks real stories.
This market will resolve based on reporting about whether this actually happened. Reporting that Pavel Durov claims it happened is not enough. If there has been no confirmation on October 1st and no further reporting on the issue appears forthcoming, this will resolve NO.
I will not take a position in this market.
I bought the issue. This is the article:
Translation from ChatGPT:
Fake Telegram at the Château
EMMANUEL MACRON has not finished dealing with Pavel Dourov. On Saturday, August 24, when the head of the encrypted messaging service Telegram was picked up by the police around 8 PM upon his arrival at Le Bourget airport (TF1/LCI, 24/8), he immediately claimed that he was expected for a dinner at the Élysée.
An information that the Château, when questioned by the Palmipède, formally denies. "The President was absolutely unaware of Pavel Dourov's visit to Paris," says an advisor to Emmanuel Macron. "Besides, that evening, he was in Touquet. We were indeed informed that Dourov had claimed to have an imaginary appointment with the Head of State and had also boasted of numerous high-level connections." But then, why did the head of Telegram walk into the lion's den by coming to Paris?
Six hours earlier, the boss of Telegram had boarded a private jet from the VistaJet company to travel to France from Azerbaijan.
The Franco-Russian was apparently unaware that, since July 8, an international arrest warrant had been issued against him by the French justice system. Or perhaps Paul du Rove, the name he adopted after being naturalized as an "eminent foreigner" in 2021, had good reasons to believe he was in the Élysée's good graces. Our president has a habit of rolling out the red carpet for tech magnates, even when they are as controversial as Elon Musk.
It seems that, this time, Macron did not receive a Telegram...