On July 30, the decision of the Greek Supreme Court to acquit the secret services and the current government in the wiretapping case, which was called by the press the “Greek Watergate”, upset the political scene, Le Monde notes in its report.
“Ultimately, only four representatives of the company that trafficked the Predator spyware will be prosecuted for ‘breaching the privacy of telephone communications.’ The opposition, the victims and civil society have risen up.”
Reporters Without Borders “deplored the Supreme Court’s decision to acquit the intelligence agency led by the prime minister” and denounced a form of impunity. The head of the largest opposition party, SYRIZA, Stefanos Kaselakis, emphasized that “his trust in Greek justice has collapsed”. The leader of the Socialist Party, Nikos Androulakis, who himself fell victim to an attempt to intercept his phone using the Predator software, even accused “the government of first infecting the secret services and now the judicial system”.
At this point, the author of the text recalls that the wiretapping scandal broke out in 2022, right after Mr. Androulakis revealed that he was targeted by the Predator spy software. It is noted that Predator allows, once the phone is infected, to record the messages and calls of the victim – even those made through encrypted applications -, and for the operator of the software to have access to codes or the browsing history of his device victim on the internet.
Le Monde reports that shortly after his election in 2019, the conservative Greek Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, placed the country’s intelligence services directly under his auspices. Since then, cases of espionage, either by traditional means (recording phone conversations) or via spy software, have skyrocketed: over 15,000 phones were allegedly monitored by Greek intelligence services, according to the press.
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