Liberté, Égalité, Find Out: France Raids X for Child Safety Crimes and Summons Musk on Hitler’s Birthday

The meme lord has been out-memed.

There is a specific kind of hubris that comes from living in a digital echo chamber where 50,000 sycophants like your poop emoji tweets. You start to believe that laws are just "content moderation" requests you can ignore. You start to believe that "Free Speech" is a magic spell that grants immunity from the consequences of your own algorithm.

But on February 4th, 2026, Elon Musk learned that the French Republic does not run on vibes.

The cybercrime unit of the Paris Prosecution Office—backed by the heavy hitters at Europol—didn't send X a DM. They didn't post a "community note." They kicked in the doors of X’s Paris headquarters. They seized servers. They seized banking records. They seized the kind of documents that billionaires usually pay very expensive lawyers to keep by a shredder.

And then, in a display of bureaucratic pettiness that frankly deserves a Pulitzer Prize for Satire, the French authorities issued a summons for Musk to appear for questioning on a specific date: April 20th.

The Ultimate Troll

Let’s unpack the genius of this date selection.

To Elon, '4/20' is the funny weed number. It is the code he uses to signal to his fanboys that he’s 'based.' He smokes weed on Joe Rogan. It is the reason he priced his Twitter offer at $54.20. It is the reason he was investigated for stock manipulation in 2018 after tweeting he would take Tesla private at $420—a 'joke' that cost him $40 million in SEC fines and his chairmanship. He literally risks his empire for the lulz.

To the French prosecutors, April 20th is something else entirely: Adolf Hitler’s birthday.

This wasn't a coincidence. This wasn't "the universe." This was a French civil servant looking at a calendar, looking at a dossier filled with allegations of Holocaust denial and neo-Nazi proliferation on X, and deciding to serve Musk the coldest dish of revanche in diplomatic history. They are forcing him to answer for the hate speech on his platform on the very day the patron saint of that hate speech was born.

It is a masterful, deliberate humiliation. It is the state equivalent of a "ratio."

It’s Not "Woke," It’s a Felony

Musk is already spinning this as a battle against the "woke mind virus." He will cry that he is a martyr for free speech.

Do not buy it.

The charges investigating X are not about misgendering people. The charges are radioactive. The raid was predicated on an investigation into complicity in the possession and distribution of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM).

Let that sink in. This isn't a regulatory slap on the wrist. This is a criminal probe into whether X’s negligence—and its new AI tools—have turned the platform into a distribution engine for the abuse of minors.

The investigation reportedly covers:

• CSAM & Pedophilia: Allegations that X has failed to remove illegal content at scale.
• Non-Consensual Deepfakes: Grok’s refusal to have safety guardrails means it has been generating deepfake pornography of real women and children.
• Holocaust Denial: Which is a crime in France, not a "debate."

The Walls Are Closing In

The timing is catastrophic for Musk. The raid comes at the exact moment the "Epstein Files" have resurfaced, dropping millions of pages of documents that remind the world just how cosy the billionaire class was with the world’s most notorious trafficker. Musk’s name appears in those files. A lot.

So now, he faces a two-front war. In the US, the Epstein documents are dismantling his moral standing. In Europe, the French police are dismantling his servers.

Musk has spent years treating Western democracies like nagging customers he can block. He thought he was playing 4D Chess. But the French just flipped the board, seized his pieces, and told him to show up on Hitler’s birthday to explain why his robot is generating porn.

Elon wanted to be the main character. Well, congratulations, mon ami. All eyes are on you.

Sources:

• Blundell, D. (2026). "BREAKING: France Just Raided Elon Musk’s X Offices In Paris" (here)