Tech Billionaire, Elon Musk failed to appear for a voluntary interview in Paris on Monday as part of a French probe into his social media platform X.
Prosecutors told AFP they had “taken note of the absence of the first people summoned,” without mentioning Musk’s name.
The billionaire had dubbed the French authorities “retards” weeks earlier in a French-language X post.
“The presence or absence (of the people summoned) is not an obstacle to continuing the investigation,” prosecutors added.
French authorities issued a summons for Musk in February as part of an investigation, launched in January 2025, into allegations that X’s algorithm was used to interfere in French politics.
In early February, French prosecutors searched the Paris offices of X, in what the social media giant – which has denied any wrongdoing – slammed as “politicised” raids and an “abusive judicial act”.
At the time, Paris prosecutors also summoned Musk and then-CEO Linda Yaccarino for voluntary interviews as the “de facto and de jure managers of the X platform at the time of the events”, a move Musk called a “political attack”.
Yaccarino resigned as CEO of X in July last year after two years at the helm of the company.
In February, Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said X employees had also been summoned to appear between April 20 and 24 “to be heard as witnesses”.
But whether or not those invited for voluntary questioning appear would not be “an obstacle to the continuation of the investigation”, the Paris prosecutor’s office said on Saturday.
Officials have not offered any details on the location or time of Musk’s scheduled interview.
The French investigation focuses on several suspected criminal offences, including complicity in possessing child s£xual abuse material and denial of crimes against humanity.
The social media company in July called the probe “politically motivated”.
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