In the complaints, they credit the company with an alleged lack of due diligence in its previous file or lack of control over its customers’ use of Pegasus because “there are licenses that the States have not taken good advantage of.”
Euskaraz irakurri: Espioitzak kaltetutakoen abokatuek Pegasusen jabe den enpresa israeldarraren aurkako kereilak iragarri dituzte
The affected lawyers for the espionage of the ‘Catalan Gate’ have announced that they will file several lawsuits against NSO, the Israeli company that owns the Pegasus software, for spying on independents at the ‘Catalan Gate’.
It was explained on Friday by lawyers Gonzalo Boye, Benet Salellas, Andreu Van den Eynde and Antoni Abat, who will hear the complaints of several victims in different courts, some in the court in Barcelona already investigating spying on Minister Roger Torrent and the deputy by ERC Ernest Maragall.
Salellas explained that the complaint is against the company as a legal entity, for an alleged lack of zeal because of its prior filing or lack of control over its customers’ use of Pegasus, because “there are licenses that the States have not taken good advantage of.”
If this accusation fails, the complaints call for the company to be considered a necessary employee, as the information passed through its servers before reaching NSO’s customers.
In addition, they also ask for an investigation in the complaints which government agencies may be involved and in this sense Salellas has mentioned the CNI, the National Police and the Guardia Civil as possibilities.
Boye has predicted that the ramifications of these lawsuits will be “very strong and very intense in terms of legal circumstances”, including for the independence cases he has in the Supreme Court of Catalonia (CJEU).
Boye alluded to the words of Defense Secretary Margarita Robles, who wondered what a state should do in a challenge like the independence movement. “In Europe, people will not understand that a democratic state is spying on the independence movement – said the lawyer -. No magistrate can justify what is illegal.”
Source: EITB
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