Levy process-small time behavior

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For a Levy process $(X_t)$, it is intuitively that, for any $\varepsilon>0$, $$ P(\sup_{0\le s\le t}|X_s|>\varepsilon)\to0\;\;\mbox{as}\;\;t\to0. $$ Is there any useful inequality to claim this or some related references?

If we apply the Markov's inequality, then $$ P(\sup_{0\le s\le t}|X_s|>\varepsilon)\le\frac{E(\sup_{0\le s\le t}|X_s|)}{\varepsilon}. $$ But, how to see that $E(\sup_{0\le s\le t}|X_s|)\to0$ as $t\to0$?

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Lévy processes are, in general, not integrable and therefore Markov's inequality is not good enough.

Note that

$$\mathbb{P} \left( \sup_{0 \leq s \leq t} |X_s| > \varepsilon \right) \xrightarrow[]{t \to 0} 0\tag{1}$$

is equivalent to saying that $\sup_{0 \leq s \leq t} |X_s|$ converges in probability to $0$ as $t \to 0$. By the definition of Lévy processes, we know that $(X_t)_{t \geq 0}$ has (almost surely) right-continuous sample paths and $X_0 = 0$; this implies in particular that

$$\lim_{t \to 0} \sup_{s \leq t} |X_s| = 0 \qquad \text{a.s.},$$

i.e. $\sup_{s \leq t} |X_s|$ converges almost surely to $0$. Since pointwise convergence (almost surely) implies convergence in probability, this proves $(1)$.