In France, this is a new step in the investigation of the Pegasus spyware: an investigating judge is now in charge of the case. Designed by the Israeli company NSO, Pegasus infiltrates mobile phones and makes it possible to spy on their users. Hundreds of politicians, human rights activists and journalists have been victims around the world. A year after the discovery of this scandal, much remains to be done to discover all its ramifications, and to identify the sponsors of the various illicit intrusions into telephones.
It’s towards the Moroccan state that point to the elements now in the hands of a French investigating judge. Many complaints have been filed in France by journalists and elected officials whose phones have been infected with the Israeli spyware Pegasus.
France is not the only country where the revelations of the consortium of journalists Forbidden Stories have legal consequences. In Spain, the intelligence services have admitted to having spied on the phones of many Catalan separatists using Pegasus and the country then discovered that the Prime Minister pedro sanchez and several members of his government had been targeted by the same spyware, but this time from a foreign country. The spanish judge in charge of the file wishes to hear the boss of the Israeli company NSO.
In Spring, the European Parliament created its own commission of inquiry into Pegasus. In the United States, it is the giant Apple -manufacturer of telephones infected with Pegasus- which filed a complaint against NSO. Israeli society has thus been placed on a government blacklist.