As agreed by the Table unanimously and endorsed by a large majority, with the support of the PSC, the plenary session on April 27, the Parliament of Catalonia presented yesterday in the Ciutat de la Justícia a complaint for the facts related to the use of the program Pegasus to spy on independence leaders.
Signed by the president of the Chamber herself, Laura Borràs, the Parliament took yesterday to the Ciutat de la Justícia the complaint announced when the Pegasus case broke out. In it, the judicial authorities are requested to initiate the corresponding proceedings to investigate the facts denounced. Now the court of instruction that corresponds by shift of distribution will have to decide on the matter.
At the end of April, the plenary session of the Parliament agreed on a resolution in which it was agreed to “formulate a complaint, under article 259 of the Criminal Procedure Law and the rest of the applicable regulations, for the facts that have been evidenced in relation to the program Pegasus espionage and that could constitute a crime.
The complaint proposes establishing the responsibilities that may have been incurred by persons who have participated in the "unauthorized intrusion" into the mobile devices of members of Parliament, having been able to access all or part of the information systems of the Chamber without being duly authorized.
Specifically, the complaint highlights that several deputies who currently make up the Chamber, as well as some former deputies, were spied on by Pegasus while they were representatives of the Parliament, as revealed by the investigation of the case known as Catalangate.
In the letter, prepared by the legal services of the Chamber, it is emphasized that during the period of time in which they were spied on, all those affected had one or more mobile devices owned by the Parliament, for which the institution is "directly violated and offended."
"The secrecy of communications has a special relevance in the political sphere, and more so in the case of deputies; the necessary preservation of the free configuration of the parliamentary will in the face of any type of pressure or coercion could have been clearly damaged with the denounced facts", the text points out.
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