Emmanuel Macron was also the target of Pegasus espionage

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A mobile phone of French President Emmanuel Macron

in charge of the Israeli Pegasus program, the media consortium that revealed the scandal reported on Tuesday. The information does not specify if Macron's phone

by the Israeli program, since for this it is necessary to analyze the terminal in search of the intrusion.

"If the facts are confirmed, they are obviously very serious," an Elysee source told reporters, adding that these revelations will be fully clarified. The phone numbers of the then prime minister,

were also selected as possible targets

, according to

, one of the media outlets of the international consortium that uncovered the scandal last Sunday.

Macron uses several mobile phones

and the number of one of them would have been entered, by a Moroccan security agency among the objectives of the spy program, the consortium of 17 international media said on Tuesday. The French press recalls that in March 2019 the French Government

, a neighboring country and at the same time a bitter rival of Morocco.

The investigation revealed

by a dozen countries (including Mexico, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Hungary, India or Azerbaijan) to the Israeli technology company NSO Group for possible espionage.

or organized crime, but the journalistic investigation uncovered that several of those countries used the program to spy on journalists, political opponents, human rights activists or lawyers.

Pegasus, once it enters a mobile phone,

, including conversations on social networks or camera and microphone activity.

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