The European Parliament inquiry commitment to shed light on the hacking of cell phones by the Israeli company NSO has just started its work.
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The Pegasus scandal rebounded to Brussels, Tuesday, April 19, as a result of the revelations indicating that MEPs and 65 people in total, including Catalan independence, would have been targeted by the spyware of the Israeli company NSO. In 2021, the Consortium for Forebidden Stories, including [Nute], had revealed the use of this software by a dozen countries. This time, a Citizen Lab report, multidisciplinary laboratory based at the University of Toronto, Canada, cited by the New Yorker magazine and the daily El Pais, says that elected officials of Catalonia, the President of the General and various personalities. Related to the independence movement have been spied after hacking their mobile phone, between 2017 and 2020, and perhaps 2015.
Once installed in a mobile phone, Pegasus makes it possible to spy on the user by accessing his messages, his photos, his conversations and his data. The device can also be activated remotely to capture sounds or images.
Spanish authorities criticized
John Scott-Railton, a researcher at Citizen Lab, and David Kaye, Professor of Law at Columbia University, intervening at a press conference held in Brussels, criticized the Spanish authorities who would have used Practices recently denounced in Poland, Hungary and Greece (where an investigative journalist was the victim of another spyware, Predator).
In the Catalan leaders’ line of leaders, the Socialist Government Pedro Sanchez denied any involvement. “Spain is a democratic country and a rule of law in which one does not hope, one does not intercept of conversations, we do not place on listen, except in the context of the law,” Reviewed his spokesman, Isabel Rodriguez. According to her, the executive “will collaborate as much as possible with justice to investigate these facts”, if the courts ask for it.