Canadian group Citizen Lab made the scandal public. At least 65 people were targeted by a spyware attack on their phones between 2017 and 2020 – including the current president of the Catalan autonomous government, Pere Aragonès, as well as three of his predecessors, Quim Torra, Artur Mas and Carles Puigdemont, who lives in exile. in Belgium. In response, the Catalan government has frozen relations with Madrid and demands immediate clarification. And a team of lawyers plans to file a lawsuit against Israeli tech firm NSO next Monday in at least six European countries, including Spain, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany and Luxembourg. Cell phones were infected there.
