Justice (Pixabay)

Justice (Pixabay)

The Lyhanna case: open season on judges

The disappearance and subsequent death of 11-year-old Lyhanna, whose body was found on June 4 in a grain silo in the Gers region, has triggered an unprecedented institutional crisis in France. Politicians are shifting the blame onto the prosecutors, who are doing the best they can with the resources at their disposal.

Pavel Duroc (TechCrunch, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

Pavel Duroc (TechCrunch, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

Telegram founder arrested in France: dictatorship on the march

Pavel Durov, CEO and founder of 900-million-user encrypted messenger Telegram, was arrested this Saturday at Le Bourget airport. The 39-year-old Franco-Russian billionaire was arrested by French authorities under a search warrant issued by the French Office for Combating Violence Against Minors.