French police search X’s office in Paris, calling in Elon Musk for questioning

French police and Europol searched X’s office, the public prosecutor’s office in Paris announced the second.

Attack is part of continuous research conducted in 2025 on charges of “fraudulent data removal” of the data processing system “by the organizing team.”

A group of French prosecutors said the investigation had been expanded to cover other suspected crimes, including: possession and distribution of child abuse materials; breach of privacy; and Holocaust denial.

The research development comes as X is owned by Elon Musk is widely criticized allowing its Grok AI to be used to create inappropriate images, including child abuse images, of other people on the platform.

Musk, who he bought X (formerly Twitter) in 2022, and the former head of X Linda Yaccarino was called for questioning on April 20. Unnamed X employees were also called the same week, according to the announcement of the prosecutor.

X and eMed speakers, where Yaccarino is now the chief executiveHe did not respond to TechCrunch’s request for comment.

Asked to comment, Maylis De Roeck, a spokeswoman for the Paris prosecutor’s office, confirmed the attack in a statement. “The goal of the Public Prosecutor’s Office is to ensure that platform X is subject to French law, because it operates throughout the country,” he said.