“We ask for the immediate intervention of the President of the EU Commission and the EU Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders”, commented the former president of the Catalan Generalitat, Carles Puigdemont, during the press conference to present the research on espionage by the Spanish authorities. of Catalan leaders, renamed in the press as CatalanGate.
“Our research shows that over 65 phones belonging to Catalan leaders, activists and their families have been infected with the Pegasus spyware, with the intent of monitoring their activities and conversations.” Thus the digital espionage expert John-Scott Railton of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto who conducted the research. “Our appeal also goes to the President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola, our private communications from MEPs have been targeted, this is an attack on the star institution of the European Parliament”, continued Puigdemont who explained that they will soon be launched. lawsuits in each of the countries where the espionage activities were carried out, “we will bring the Spanish secret services and all the Spanish institutions that have participated in these illegitimate activities to the courts of Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and the European Court!” .
Source: Ansa
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