The National Court, the Court of Instruction number 32 of Barcelona, another of Madrid, the Supreme Court and courts of five other countries they will see in one way or another the espionage carried out through Pegasus. One or the other will do it depending on the place where was the victim of these practices when he suffered the attack and the judicial strategy you choose, which does not always coincide.
The State Attorney, on behalf of the President of the Government, Pedro Sanchezand the Defense Minister, Margaret Oaks, He opted for the National High Court to denounce the two interferences he suffered the first on July 19 and 31 last year, and she, in June.
In his case, the choice was easy, because at the moment the authorship is only conjectured, which prevents the initiative from being directed against someone in particular, and between the powers of the National High Court include crimes against “senior organizations of the nation“, among which there is no doubt that the members of the Executive are.
Accumulation by origin
Moncloa unties espionage that both suffered from the denounced by 65 Catalan independence supporters, based on a Citizen Lab report, attached to the University of Toronto. After the celebration of the commission of official secrets of the Congress it was known that the CNI, with the mandatory judicial authorizationwas behind that of 18 of them, among them, that of the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragoneswhen he was vice president.
This rules out any possibility of accumulation with the case followed in the National High Court, because, in addition to the doubts about whether a regional president is among those protected by the precept that regulates the powers of the National High Court, it is added that the origin of the interference is different.
Most of the writings are directed against the Israeli company that designed the spy software, but some point to the Government
Not all of the 65 have already denounced. Gonzalo Boyelawyer of the ‘ex-president’ Carles Puigdemonthas sued in the Madrid courts against Israeli companies that sell spyware. He decided on the capital because it is where he has his residence fixed, but he does not rule out extending the proceedings to the cities where he was at the time of the at least 19 attacks of which he considers to have been a victim.
However, most of the complaints are being filed in Barcelona. The Court of Instruction number 32 of this city investigates for more than a year and a half the alleged espionage denounced by the former president of Parliament Roger Torrent and the former deputy and leader of the ERC in Barcelona, Ernest Maragall. those of Òmnium Cultural and the CUP, also directed against the Israeli company NSO, have gone ahead of those that follow this path.
The ‘former president’ Quim Torre, Instead, he announced on Twitter that with the former vice president of Parliament Josep Costa They will sue Sánchez and his Government, which can only be done before the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court, as it is the only one that can investigate and judge the members of the Executive.
both @JosepCosta demand the president of the Spanish government and the council of ministers for espionage with Pegasus. They are responsible for the most important espionage in recent years against a national minority and have violated our rights.
+info: https://t.co/HalvbRZwvd
– Quim Torra i Pla (@QuimTorraiPla) May 3, 2022
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In addition to the initiatives presented in Spanish courts, from the headquarters of the European Parliament, Puigdemont and the president of ERC, Oriol Junquerasannounced that they would take their complaints to Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Germany and Franceso that their courts also rule, taking advantage of the fact that they were in those countries when they suffered the attacks.
In this way they achieve one of the objectives that at least the first has maintained throughout the ‘procés’: to internationalize the case, in search of resolutions that question those dictated by the Spanish justice system.