{"id":4530,"date":"2025-06-30T09:28:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T09:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/?p=4530"},"modified":"2025-06-30T09:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T09:29:08","slug":"french-gangsters-ordering-hits-on-uberkills-service-lemonde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/30\/french-gangsters-ordering-hits-on-uberkills-service-lemonde\/","title":{"rendered":"French gangsters ordering hits on \u2018UberKills\u2019 service \u2013 LeMonde"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police have linked a recent contract killing to an encrypted Telegram-based service, the outlet has reported<\/strong><\/p>\n

French gangsters are using a Telegram-based service dubbed \u2018UberKills\u2019 to order assassinations, Le Monde has reported. According to the newspaper, clients communicate via the app with a service manager who passes target information and weapons to the assassin.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The killing of a 19-year-old man in eastern France in April has been linked to the network, Le Monde reported on Friday. The victim, Abdel-Hakim B., was shot three times in the head, and the attack was broadcast on the Snapchat social media app before emergency services arrived.<\/p>\n

The victim and the suspected killer were both allegedly recruited via Telegram to work in local drug operations, according to Le Monde. Abdel-Hakim B., a computer science student with no criminal background, had reportedly answered an online job ad the day before the killing, offering \u20ac220 ($260) per day to supervise a drug-dealing point.<\/p>\n

Surveillance footage and digital data allowed police to identify the suspected gunman, 18-year-old Mohamed G., within eight days. He had traveled by high-speed train from Paris to Lyon and arrived at the crime scene by taxi.<\/p>\n

Mohamed G. was arrested at his parents\u2019 home, where police found the clothing he wore during the killing. A woman who allegedly helped organize his travel and logistics was also arrested and charged, but denies knowing she was assisting in a murder. Authorities say she was paid \u20ac700, while the full fee for the killing was \u20ac2,500.<\/p>\n

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A senior police officer in Lyon said that over the past three to four years, authorities had observed a rise in the use of apps and online networks in criminal activity. The trend, he noted, reflects what he described as the \u201cUberization of crime.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Earlier this month Telegram founder Pavel Durov, who is under investigation in France, accused Le Monde of waging a smear campaign against his messaging platform, saying it had published 40 negative articles about Telegram in the seven weeks following his arrest at a Paris airport in August 2024.<\/p>\n

Durov was detained on charges of complicity in crimes allegedly committed by Telegram users, including extremism and child abuse. He was later released on bail.<\/p>\n

The Russian-born entrepreneur said that in most cases Le Monde did not request a comment from the company or ignored corrections provided by the platform. He claimed the newspaper was attempting to build a negative narrative about Telegram and described the charges against him as \u201cabsurd.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Telegram said in a statement that it complies with EU laws and described it as absurd that the platform or its founder should be held accountable for user abuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Police have linked a recent contract killing to an encrypted Telegram-based service, the outlet has reported French gangsters are using a Telegram-based service dubbed \u2018UberKills\u2019 to order assassinations, Le Monde has reported. According to the newspaper, clients communicate via the app with a service manager who passes target information and weapons to the assassin.\u00a0\u00a0 The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4534,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530\/revisions\/4534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}