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Numbers of President Emmanuel Macron and members of the French government, including former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe, were targeted in 2019 by Morocco according to the organization Forbidden Stories, a media consortium behind the revelations on the Pegasus monitoring software.
Numbers of President Emmanuel Macron and members of the government are on a list of potential targets of the Pegasus software, used by some states to spy on personalities, Laurent Richard, director of the Forbidden Stories organization, said on Tuesday, confirming information from Le Monde. .
The daily revealed Tuesday that these numbers, including that of former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe and 14 members of the government, appeared “in the list of numbers selected by a security service of the Moroccan state, user of the spyware Pegasus , for potential piracy “.
“We found these phone numbers, but we were obviously unable to carry out a technical investigation on Emmanuel Macron’s phone” to check if he was infected by this software and therefore “that does not tell us if the president was actually spied on, “said the director of Forbidden Stories, on the LCI news channel.
But according to him, whether or not the president was spied on, that “shows in any case that there was an interest in doing so”.
“If the facts are proven, they are obviously very serious. All the light will be shed on these press revelations”, reacted the presidency, questioned by AFP to know if the head of state had been “potentially spied on” via Pegasus.
Forbidden Stories and Amnesty International have obtained a list of 50,000 phone numbers selected by NSO clients since 2016 for potential surveillance and shared it with a consortium of 17 media outlets who revealed its existence on Sunday.
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