In a statement Friday, the company said: "in response to a valid legal request, Twitter has provided the prosecutor of Paris, Presse et Libertés Publiques section of the Paris Tribunal de Grande Instance, with data that may enable the identification of certain users that the Vice-Prosecutor believes have violated French law".
"We have decided that further investigation while keeping the captain in custody would not be appropriate, considering the impact on the people of our country as well as Japan-China relations in the future," the district's vice-prosecutor, Toru Suzuki, said.
But vice-prosecutor Cyril Fournier said: "They may have stayed in Cherbourg, but they may be 500km from here, it's like looking for a needle in a haystack".
Giving evidence, Det Insp Brian Tarpey, who led the trip, said he met top Russian officials including Russia's vice-general prosecutor, Alexander Bastrikin.
Judge Louise W. Flanagan of Federal District Court in North Carolina dismissed all charges against two of the officials, Andrew Howell, Blackwater's former general counsel, and Ana Bundy, a former vice president; prosecutors agreed to drop charges against a third, Ronald Slezak, a former weapons manager.
Amid a recent push by authorities to clear the mass backlog of unexamined sexual assault kits sitting on police storage shelves across the nation, Manhattan's top prosecutor, Vice President Joe Biden, and the US Attorney General announced the allocation of nearly $80 million in funding to assist the effort.
Prosecutors told VICE Romania that "there was no written correspondence between the prosecutors' office and the health ministry".
The prosecutor interviewed Vice President Al Gore on Tuesday, White House officials said.
The President and other top officials can cut deals, trading political decisions for commercial preferences, and vice versa, with the prosecutor acting as the system's ultimate enforcer.
Mr. Drexler, a former prosecutor and vice president of the state Parliament, agreed to be the lead spokesman for Stuttgart 21, an ambitious plan to link the wealthy industrial region of southwestern Germany to Europe's high-speed rail system.
