The lesson seems to be more like the state will throw any bullshit around to persecute people building technologies they don't like, meaning systems that use these technologies should be built to be resilient to single points of failure while giving companies plausible deniability that they tried but couldn't enforce restrictions. Compliant noncompliance is the way. 

 Yes it could all be bs excuse. I wonder why France is the only country to bring up those charges 🤔 or were there others? 

 I would think it's because he's a citizen of France, so they have a more direct legal course of action to pursue him with.