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Greece: hearing of a journalist, presumed victim of illegal surveillance

2022-08-16T11:28:48.769Z


Thanasis Koukakis, a Greek journalist who denounced the attack on his mobile phone by the Predator spyware and its surveillance by...


Thanasis Koukakis, a Greek journalist who denounced the attack on his mobile phone by the spyware Predator and its surveillance by the intelligence services (EYP), appeared on Tuesday August 16 before the prosecution of the Supreme Court which is investigating the scandal. eavesdropping in Greece.

Specialized in corruption cases, Thanasis Koukakis, arrived at 11:00 local time (0800 GMT) at the Supreme Court near the center of Athens holding a file, according to an AFP journalist on the spot.

He had denounced his surveillance by the EYP in 2020 before discovering a few months ago that his phone had also been attacked by the illegal software Predator in 2021.

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The prosecution of Supreme Court Isidoros Doyakos last week opened a “

preliminary investigation into the leak of secret information

” concerning these surveillances, according to a judicial source.

On Friday, journalist Anastasios Telloglou, who investigates illegal surveillance in Greece, was summoned for a hearing before the Supreme Court.

Last November, another investigative journalist, Stavros Malichudis, who specializes in migration affairs, also denounced his surveillance by the EYP, which was then revealed by the left-wing Greek daily Efsyn.

The conservative government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis initially tried to play down the affair, ruling out “

any state involvement in the surveillance denounced by the two journalists.

But at the end of July, the seizure of justice by Nikos Androulakis, MEP and leader of the socialist opposition Pasok-Kinal, denouncing

“attempts to monitor”

his telephone by Predator, dealt a major blow to the government.

On August 5, the successive resignations of EYP leader Panagiotis Kontoleon and a close adviser to the prime minister forced Kyriakos Mitsotakis to recognize

“an error”

by the EYP in monitoring the socialist opposition leader, calling her a

"politically unacceptable". The left-wing opposition and the media then stepped up to demand the resignation of the government. The EYP is placed directly under the aegis of the Prime Minister after a controversial reform passed just after the election to power of the New Democracy right in July 2019.

Source: lefigaro

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