French President Emmanuel Macron will hold a special cabinet meeting on Thursday morning to discuss investigations into the Pegasus spyware case, gorvernment spokesperson Gabriel Attal said.
Attal said progress was being made in the investigations after Amnesty International and a group of international media organisations said spyware made and licensed by a company based in Israel was used in hacks of smartphones belonging to journalists, government officials and human rights activists.
‘The president will this morning hold a special defence council meeting at the Elysee (palace) on the Pegasus case and on cyber – security’, Attal told France Inter radio.
French daily Le Monde has reported that Macron’s phone was on a list of potential targets for potential surveillance on behalf of Morocco in the spyware case.
Prime Minister Jean Castex said Macron had called for a series of investigations in the case.
‘The president is monitoring the case very closely’, Attal siad.
Morocco has denied buying or using the Pegasus spyware licensed by Israel – based NSO group after Amnesty and the groups of 17 international media organisations reported it had targeted thousands of phone numbers.
The company has denied the allegations in the report.
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