WEEKEND READING: Behind the arrest of Telegram boss Durov, the small Parisian cybercrime unit with big ambitions led by Johanna Brousse

CHIEF: Johanna Brousse’s J3 cybercrime unit is France’s largest, licensed to prosecute nationwide. But it is also small, with just five prosecutors. With limited resources, “they prioritize the most serious crimes,” Brousse told Le Figaro last year.

Brousse said in a 2022 podcast appearance that she wanted to be tough, “so that cybercriminals believe that if they attack France, they will be judged and punished very severely.”