Driss Aït Youssef: "Never has an allied country spied on France like this"
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Le Monde newspaper revealed that the phones of French President Emmanuel Macron and 15 members of the government were spied on by Morocco via Pegasus spyware.
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By: Amélie Tulet Follow
5 mins
Since the revelations of the Pegasus project, Morocco has denied being a client of the Israeli company NSO which markets this spyware.
A group of international media has been unveiling since Sunday, in episodes, the conclusions of the investigations carried out on the basis of a list of 50,000 numbers potentially targeted by the software across the planet.
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According to the French newspaper
Le Monde
, the phone number of President Emmanuel Macron was targeted by a Moroccan security service, as were the numbers of other French politicians.
According to the investigation unit of Radio France, a number of King Mohammed VI is also on the list.
Driss Aït Youssef, president of the Leonardo da Vinci Institute, a training body in particular on cybersecurity issues, answers Amélie Tulet's questions.
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