![]() ![]() In a statement, the Spanish prime minister’s office said: “The government has no evidence that the speaker of the Catalan parliament, Roger Torrent, the former MP Anna Gabriel and the activist Jordi Domingo have been the targets of hacking via their mobiles. It did not respond to specific questions about the alleged use of NSO Group spyware. Spain’s national intelligence centre (CNI) said in a statement that it acts “in full accordance with the legal system, and with absolute respect for the applicable laws” and that its work is overseen by Spain’s supreme court. ![]() For me, this situation should serve to put an end to the dirty war, to the sewers of the state and to the persecution of political ideas.” “But these kinds of actions have happened under a PSOE government. “The government we have now claims to be the most progressive that we’ve had historically,” said Torrent. Torrent said it was particularly worrying that the act of possible domestic espionage had happened last year while the Spanish Socialist Workers’ party (PSOE) – which now leads a minority coalition government – was in power. If it was pro-independence campaigners today, he added, “who knows who it’s going to be tomorrow?” “That’s what needs to be cleared up: who’s behind this specifically, which state apparatus is using these tools in what I have to say is an illegal manner that contravenes the right to privacy, the right to private communications, and the right of a political movement with a legitimate and democratic political proposal to conduct itself without interference from a state that is ultimately persecuting political dissidence.” “But beyond that, I don’t know,” he said. Torrent called for an investigation into the matter and said that while he did not yet know who had deployed the spyware, the fact that NSO group sells only to states suggested the Spanish state was responsible for targeting him. ![]() ![]() It also seems to me to be immoral for a huge amount of public money to be spent on buying software that can be used as a tool for the persecution of political dissidence. “It seems wrong and unacceptable from a democratic point of view and as regards the rule of law. “ corroborates and confirms the fears or ideas that we pro-independence campaigners had about the state being prepared to use all the mechanisms at its disposal to go after a legitimate political project,” claimed Torrent. He said evidence by researchers at Citizen Lab that pointed to Pegasus hacking software sold by the Israeli NSO Group being used against him and others confirmed long-held suspicions that the regional independence movement was being spied on by the Spanish state. ![]()
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