The National Commission for the Control of Personal Data Protection (CNDP) is seizing the Pegasus affair. Morocco has been accused of having targeted 10,000 numbers, including one belonging to the President of the French Republic Emmanuel Macron, using the spyware of the Israeli company NSO.
Algeria is apparently not about to accept King Mohammed VI’s outstretched hand for a possible warming of relations between the two countries. Army Corps General Saïd Chanegriha, Chief of Staff of the People’s National Army (ANP), once again evokes "the plots and maneuvers being hatched against" his country and the "conspiracies hatched against" the Algerian people.
The Moroccan ambassador to Berlin, Zohour Alaoui, filed on behalf of the Kingdom, an injunction against the newspaper publishing company "Süddeutsche Zeitung GmbH", for "false allegations in the context of a report on the alleged use of the Pegasus spyware by the Kingdom of Morocco".
Accused of spying on foreign personalities, Morocco is multiplying actions to dismantle these accusations described as a "conspiracy against the stability of the kingdom" . After legal attacks for defamation, Morocco has decided to call on the services of a recognized computer expert whose role will be to expose the conspiracy behind the espionage allegations.
Gérard Araud, retired, former French ambassador to Washington, and former external advisor to the Israeli company NSO, the manufacturer of Pegasus, has expressed doubts about Morocco, one of the countries accused of having targeted 10,000 phone numbers, including French President Emmanuel Macron , using the spyware.
The Moroccan ambassador to France, Chakib Benmoussa, has defended the kingdom, which has been singled out as the instigator of widespread surveillance of its opponents and partners. The diplomat flatly denies it and denounces a campaign of destabilization.
"NSO did not track President Macron’s phone." These words come from Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz, who assured his French counterpart Florence Parly that Morocco has never used the Israeli Pegasus software against President Emmanuel Macron.
Bernard Squarcini, former director of French domestic intelligence, says that "Morocco has no interest in spying on Emmanuel Macron" using the Israeli software Pegagus. He is counting on the technical and international judicial investigation that will be conducted to shed light on this case.
Judicial offensive by Morocco following the accusations made against it for espionage via the Pegasus software. The Moroccan authorities have filed a complaint in France against the media that revealed or denounced the case.
The head of the Moroccan government spoke out on the Pegasus affair during a television program. El Othmani denounced the organizations Forbidden Stories, Amnesty International and the media consortium publisher of the controversial study on the Pegasus software, which, according to him, are targeting Morocco .
While the diplomatic double crisis between Rabat and Berlin and Madrid persists and Morocco is accused of having targeted 10,000 numbers including that of French President Emmanuel Macron using the Israeli Pegasus software, Germany tends to pour oil on the fire. The German Institute for International and Security Affairs calls on the European Union to reduce Morocco’s hegemony over Algeria and Tunisia.
French President Emmanuel Macron spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett about the Pegasus software that Morocco is said to have used to target his number and those of other personalities.