The environment of the former president of the Generalitat Carles Puigdemont He had been warning for weeks of the seriousness of the mobile espionage committed through Pegasus, which became known thanks to a report by ‘The New Yorker’ magazine on the conclusions of the report by the Citizen Lab institute, dependent on the University of Toronto. This Monday they did not hesitate to frame the denounced by the Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchezand the Defense Minister, Margaret Oaksin the one lived by the Catalan independence movement, known as ‘Catalangate’.
Sources close to the ‘ex-president’ they regret that the central Executive chose to speak without knowing what had happened and that in all their statements they pointed to a legal action by the National Intelligence Center (CNI), that is, carried out with the authorization of the Supreme Court judge in charge of intelligence services, Pablo Lucas, or his substitute, Andrés Martínez-Arrieta. In particular, they criticize the statements of the Defense Minister herself, who last week in Congress justified espionage against the independence movement Catalan in the face of the risk of new unilateral declarations of independence.
But what they have no doubt about is that the espionage of which Robles herself and the Prime Minister have been victims is framed within that suffered by the independence movement, because they consider that the fundamental issues dealt with at the time of the detected illegal interference were Catalanamong them were the pardons of the ‘procés’ and the negotiation to form the Government against the background of the weight of the ERC in the Congress of Deputies.
They even joke about the possibility that the illegal wiretapping came from Morocco, pointing out that in that case “the best thing would be to hand over Ceuta and Melilla”, referring to the old Moroccan territorial claim, despite the fact that when the interference occurred there was also tension with that country for having welcomed in Spain the leader of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, for his hospitalization.
Complaints against NSO
While the Government has put the illegal interference suffered in the hands of the State Attorney, which this morning filed the corresponding complaint in the National High Court, the affected Catalan separatists are opting for different strategies. The first complaints have been those filed by Òmnium Cultural and the CUP in the Court of Instruction number 32 of Barcelona, which was already investigating the filings a year ago by the former president of the Parliament and current ‘conseller’ of Business, Roger Torrentand the ERC leader in Barcelona, Ernest Maragall.
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Puigdemont’s entourage continues to work on theirs, which will exceed a hundred pages and will be directed against the Israeli company NSOto which Pegasus belongs, for having been used the software that it develops for the commission of crimes. The letter, according to the sources consulted, will not hold anyone specifically responsible for the interference so that the judicial investigation is directed freely against the alleged perpetrators.
However, they admit that their suspicions fall on the sewers of the State, which during the Rajoy government acquired an Israeli communications interception system similar to Pegasus, as the main defendant in the procedure in which they are investigated recorded on his agenda. the former commissioner Jose Manuel Villarejo and has counted this diary. That would also explain, they argue, being able to have enough troops to be able to subject so many people to espionage at the same time.