After Forbidden Stories and Le Monde newspaper, Morocco has decided to file a lawsuit against French newspaper L’Humanité for accusations of involvement in the notorious Pegasus Affair.
The French media platform claimed that Morocco spied on numerous targets in France, including Moroccan “activists” for the independence of the Sahara and French officials, using the Israeli spyware Pegasus.
Le Monde reports that this recent complaint concerns L’Humanité journalist Rosa Moussaoui, author of an article accusing Morocco of involvement in the Pegasus affair.
The Pegasus Project refers to an international investigative journalism initiative that revealed governments’ alleged espionage on journalists, opposition politicians, activists, business people and others using the private Pegasus spyware developed by the Israeli cyberarms firm NSO Group.
Rabat denied these allegations, saying “it never acquired computer software to infiltrate communication devices,” according to a statement from the Moroccan embassy in Berlin.
“Morocco has taken its own steps to prove the illegality of the allegations made against it,” said Foreign Affairs Minister Nasser Bourita.
“Morocco has also chosen to trust justice, internally and internationally, any person or organization accusing Morocco must bring proof, or assume slanderous denunciation in front of the justice,” the minister added.
The claims are founded on a leaked list of 50,000 phone numbers targeted by the Pegasus cellphone surveillance program.
The country has already filed a suit against Forbidden Stories, Le Monde, Radio France, Mediapart, Amnesty International, Süddeutsche Zeitung GmbH, and most recently, L’Humanité over the Pegasus affair.
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