This Tuesday, the Paris prosecutor's office opened an investigation into the spying of French journalists after the revelations on Sunday of a consortium of 17 international media.
Their investigations notably shed light on espionage practices with the infiltration of phones by the software of the Israeli company NSO Group on behalf of the Moroccan State, which contests them.
The investigation by the Paris prosecutor's office was opened on the grounds of a list of ten offenses including "invasion of privacy", "interception of correspondence", "fraudulent access" to a computer system and "criminal association".
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Introduced in a smartphone, the Pegasus software allows you to retrieve messages, photos, contacts and even listen to calls from its owner.
More than 1,000 French people would be affected according to the investigation.
Several French journalists and former journalists as well as human rights activists are part of a list of numbers identified and monitored by the Pegasus software.
French media file a complaint
On Monday July 19, the news site Mediapart and Le Canard Enchaîné announced that they had filed complaints in Paris after obtaining information showing that the phones of some of their journalists had been spied on by a Moroccan service, using Israeli software Pegasus. .
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"The cell phone numbers of Lénaïg Bredoux and Edwy Plenel are among the 10,000 that Morocco's secret services have targeted using spyware provided by the Israeli company NSO," Mediapart confirmed in an article published Monday.
The investigative media explains that the aim was to try to "silence independent journalists in Morocco, by finding out how we were investigating in this area".
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