Overview
- Barcelona’s provincial court revived a criminal probe into alleged Pegasus infections affecting three Òmnium figures after a lower court closed the case in February.
- The judges ordered a formal request to Spain’s Council of Ministers to lift secrecy on any Centro Nacional de Inteligencia actions tied to the three phones.
- The court also issued an international request to Israel for NSO Group, Q Cyber, and OSY to state whether they retain logs or records linked to the targeted devices.
- The order names the alleged victims as Marcel Mauri, Elena Jiménez, and Txell Bonet, and shifts the focus from proving infection to identifying who ordered or carried out the surveillance between 2018 and 2020.
- Independent reports by CitizenLab, Amnesty International, Evidentia, Spain’s Ombudsman, and a European Parliament inquiry had already signaled Pegasus compromises, which Òmnium says supports deeper fact-finding and declassification.