The general secretary of Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC), Marta Rovira, Fleeing from Spain since 2018 and residing in Geneva since then, he has denounced before the Swiss Prosecutor’s Office he espionage who allegedly suffered, along with other pro-independence politicians, through the Pegasus software.
As reported today by Swiss national television RTS, the Public Ministry of the Confederation (Prosecutor’s Office) confirmed having received this complaint, although it did not comment on details of the investigations, which according to other judicial sources consulted by the Swiss channel could have been suspended since October.
The presentation of the case is known on the same day that ERC, together with Bildu and BNG, requested before the Spanish Congress of Deputies a commission of investigation into espionage with Pegasus, apparently agreed upon during negotiations with the PSOE in exchange for achieve a majority at the lower house table.
In addition, this Wednesday Judge Manuel García Castellón sent a rogatory commission to Switzerland to provide information on the whereabouts of Rovira and on a bank account of an entity in the country that is suspected of being used to finance the Tsunami Democràtic movement, requests before which the Swiss judicial authorities have not yet publicly commented on.
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Apparently, the Pegasus ‘software’ (with which tens of thousands of personalities around the world have been spied on) could be secretly installed on the Catalan leader’s mobile phone through two links supposedly linked to two local associations (Swisspeace and Geneva Center for Security Policy), RTS indicated today.
According to Rovira’s lawyer in Geneva, Jean-Marc Carnicé, quoted by Swiss television, the alleged espionage could represent a “violation of the national sovereignty” of the Central European country, as monitoring was carried out without the necessary authorization from the Office. Swiss Federal Court of Justice.