The founder of the messaging service Telegram, Pavel Durov, has made his first statement after his arrest in Paris last month. In a long post on his own Telegram channel late Thursday, he rejected the French authorities’ accusations that the service does not respond to requests from official bodies. “Telegram has an official representative in the EU that accepts and replies to EU requests,” he wrote. The 39-year-old French citizen is free on bail but is not allowed to leave the country. Investigators in Paris accuse Durov of insufficiently cooperating with authorities in criminal investigation…