X offices raided in France

[dupe] Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46868998

Honest question: What does it mean to "raid" the offices of a tech company? It's not like they have file cabinets with paper records. Are they just seizing employee workstations?

Seems like you'd want to subpoena source code or gmail history or something like that. Not much interesting in an office these days.

Guess that will be a SpaceX problem soon enough. What a mess.

Ok, that's the second article on this that doesn't mention how it works in France.

I will explain because I see a lot of post that could be better if their author understood that the French system isn't the US system.

France 'prosecutor' role is divided in two: one is called 'procureur' and represent the state, but is chosen among judges by the executive power. The second is 'juge d'instruction' and represent the judiciary. They are chosen nominated by the local court without any executive power involvement. They lead the investigation, they order the raids, they order the arrest etc, without involvement from the 'procureur'.

The 'procureur' ask for a 'juge d'instruction' to lead an investigation on X/Y or Z (this fucking company name makes everything worse FFS). The judge will then collect evidence, for and against the procureur case, and then if necessary will ask for raids and auditions to finalise. When that's done and all the new evidence is collected (it can take on average 2 years, but if it's an international case like for our ex-president, it can take 10+), the 'juge d'instruction' will present all the gathered evidence to the procureur (who will decide to pursue or not) _and_ the accused.

This system exists to avoid as much as possible the executive (police and politicians) to use investigations as a scare tactic. Of course the magistrates know each other, and both corruption and influence is possible, and maybe that's the case here, but you ought to know the raid can't be at the behest of the procureur/president. We take separation of powers seriously here

This is a show of resolve.

"Uh guys, little heads up: there are some agents of federal law enforcement raiding the premises, so if you see that. That’s what that is."

Once you've worked long enough in the software industry, you start to understand it's all just a fully planned economy.

Why would X have offices in France? I'm assuming it's just to hire French workers? Probably leftover from the Pre Acquisition era.

Or is there any France-specific compliance that must be done in order to operate in that country?

France24 article on this: https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260203-paris-prosecutor...

lol, they summoned Elon for a hearing on 420

"Summons for voluntary interviews on April 20, 2026, in Paris have been sent to Mr. Elon Musk and Ms. Linda Yaccarino, in their capacity as de facto and de jure managers of the X platform at the time of the events,

I guess this means that building the neverending 'deepfake CSAM on demand machine' was a bad idea.

Facebook offices should routinely raided for aiding and profitting from various scams propagated through ads on this platform.

Elon's in the files asking Epstein about "wild parties" and then doesn't seem to care about all this. Easy to draw a conclusion here.

> They have also summoned billionaire owner Elon Musk for questioning.

Good luck with that...

@dang The title here is misleading. The original not.

X didn't raid the prosecutors offices, the prosecutors did

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Yet another nail

It's cool that not every law enforcement agency in the world is under the complete thumb of U.S. based billionaires.

Surprised the EU hasn’t banned it yet given that the platform is manipulated by Musk to destabilize Europe and move it towards the far right. The child abuse feels like a smaller problem compared to that risk.