SPYING – The Moroccan government has indicated that it wants to initiate legal proceedings against those accusing it of having used Pegasus spy software on several potential targets, including Emmanuel Macron.
Questioned, Morocco is preparing its response. On Wednesday, his government announced that it was ready to initiate legal proceedings against those accusing Rabat of using Pegasus spy software. Introduced into a smartphone, this software, designed by the Israeli company NSO, allows you to retrieve messages, photos, contacts, and to activate microphones remotely.
THE PEGASUS AFFAIR, A WORLDWIDE ESPIONAGE
Tuesday, a member of a consortium of 17 media, revealed that French President Emmanuel Macron, appeared on the list of potential targets of the Pegasus software while incriminating “a security service of the Moroccan state.” On Wednesday, the Moroccan government denounced a “false, massive and malicious media campaign.” Faced with these “false and unfounded” accusations, he said “to opt for a judicial process, in Morocco and internationally against any party taking up these fallacious allegations”, in a statement.
As of Monday, the Moroccan government had already denounced as “false” the information according to which the services of the kingdom had “infiltrated the telephones of several national and foreign public figures and officials of international organizations through computer software”. For its part, the Moroccan public prosecutor’s office has not remained inactive as well. He announced the opening of a judicial inquiry “into these false allegations and accusations in order to identify the parties behind their publication”.
According to the investigation unit of Radio France, a member of the consortium, the King of Morocco Mohammed VI and his entourage are also “on the list of potential targets” of the Pegasus software. “We were indeed able to establish that one of the telephone numbers which appear in the listing of the Moroccan intelligence services is indeed that of Mohammed VI. And all his entourage suffered the same fate”, affirmed Tuesday the cell of Radio France.
