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by cocoggu 1749 days ago
It's up to the local authorities as you said. If the Chinese government files 500 requests on interpol and the Swiss authority recognizes the requests, ProtonMail will just have to comply.

But usually interpol rejects many requests from the Chinese government (to track uyghurs for example).

The real scandal here is why the French authority is making such request on an activist, why Interpol processed it (as far as I understand there are no crimes in play here?), and why the Swiss authority recognizes the request? Perhaps we don't have the full story, but, with only the information we have, it sounds like an abuse of the protocol on 3 different entities. And double standards from Interpol (not okay to track down chinese activists, but ok for french activists?)
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lima 1749 days ago
> The real scandal here is why the French authority is making such request on an activist, why Interpol processed it (as far as I understand there are no crimes in play here?), and why the Swiss authority recognizes the request?

This seems easy to answer - according to French media[1], they were activists illegally occupying[2] buildings to protest rising real estate prices. This is illegal in Switzerland, too. What's the scandal? Authorities using their powers?

[1]: https://www.lesnumeriques.com/vie-du-net/protonmail-a-fourni...

[2]: https://www.lefigaro.fr/societes/a-paris-un-local-du-restaur...

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cocoggu 1748 days ago
Illegal, okay, but is it a crime? I mean, after WWII interpol asked countries to not fill requests on nazis criminals because they did crimes of political nature and interpol needs to stay politically neutral [0]. But now, for an anti-capitalist activist it's not political?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpol#cite_ref-14

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lima 1748 days ago
> Illegal, okay, but is it a crime?

According to Swiss law, yes.

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