Journalist Eric Zemmour will appear on September 8 before the Paris Criminal Court for "incitement to discrimination" and "racial insults." He had described unaccompanied minor migrants as "thieves and murderers."
Morocco is accused of having targeted the phone numbers of journalists, activists and French personalities, including President Emmanuel Macron, using the Israeli Pegasus software. Will this affair strain relations between Morocco and France?
At the Orsetti maritime station, the waiting conditions for vacationers who will have to reach Morocco after the arrival of a ferry are difficult. They are torn between surprise and anger.
The Pegasus affair in which some organizations have made serious accusations of espionage against Morocco continues to be controversial. Mohamed Fizazi , one of the most media-savvy Salafist leaders in Morocco , said that "it is up to the media consortium to prove in accordance with the law the facts necessary for the success of its claims against Morocco".
Accused of having wiretapped foreign personalities and journalists, Morocco has hired lawyer Olivier Baratelli, mandated to file a [complaint against Amnesty International and Forbbiden Stories]. On Thursday evening on BFM TV, the latter categorically stated that "Morocco has never had any contractual or commercial ties with the NSO company", the supplier of the Pegasus spyware.
Six associations, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW), representing victims of police violence and discrimination, have decided to attack the French state on racial profiling. They have just seized the Council of State.
The mosque of Gennevilliers will have to find another imam. On July 8, Mohamed Benali, president of the Ennour association, was summoned to the prefecture to explain a sermon considered "very vindictive". Yet the mosque on Paul Vaillant-Couturier Street was known for its openness and tolerance.
The French President Emmanuel Macron changed one of his phone numbers after learning that it may have been infiltrated by the Pegasus spyware.
French President Emmanuel Macron convened an "exceptional defense council dedicated to the Pegasus affair and the issue of cybersecurity" this Thursday, July 22nd. The announcement was made by Gabriel Attal, the government spokesman.
Morocco is the victim of a media campaign aimed at tarnishing its image. This is what the president of the France-Morocco friendship group in the French Senate, Christian Cambon, said after the kingdom was accused of having infiltrated the phones of Moroccan and foreign public figures, including high-ranking French officials, via the Pegasus spyware.
Morocco would have used the Israeli software Pegasus to spy on deputy François de Rugy, when he was Minister of Ecological Transition (2018-2019). The elected official demands explanations.
The Moroccans residing abroad (MREs) blocked at the port of Sète for several days have returned to Morocco to celebrate Eid al-Adha with their families and spend the summer vacation there. This, thanks to the special device set up by the Moroccan authorities.