Former French Defense Minister’s Phone Targeted by Pegasus Spyware, Investigation Reveals

The judicial investigation opened for "invasion of privacy", "criminal conspiracy" and "interception, diversion, use and disclosure of correspondence" and entrusted to the investigating judge Serge Tournaire, following the revelations of Forbidden Stories and its partners, is bearing fruit. According to Mediapart, it reveals that the number of Florence Parly, former Minister of the Armed Forces, was spied on using the Pegasus software while she was still in government. In addition to the former French Minister of Defense, twenty-two other people were victims of the Pegasus software, the investigation also reveals. Among them, two journalists from the news site, Edwy Plenel and Lenaïg Bredoux, but also Claude Mangin, the wife of a militant for the independence of Western Sahara or "journalists critical of the Moroccan regime".

Mediapart has not, for the time being, specified the country