In Brazil, Lula dismisses number 2 in Brazilian intelligence suspected of illegal espionage. Alessandro Moretti, the deputy director of the Brazilian Intelligence Agency, has been fired by the Brazilian president.
Police suspect Moretti of having been part of a clandestine network that used Israeli spyware, FirstMile, to illegally listen to hundreds of politicians and public figures under the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022) Lula: “We are never sure.” But he added that he had "great confidence" in the current director of this service.