The revelations about the use made by certain countries of the Pegasus spyware against journalists around the world have focused attention on Morocco's close surveillance of the media. As Mediapart – itself a victim of Moroccan spying - here reveals, the North African kingdom's clampdown targets not just independent journalists and publications but human rights activists too. The regime has also cynically made use of the #MeToo movement and the subsequent heightened global awareness about sexual and sexist violence to discredit those who criticise and oppose it by manipulating or fabricating evidence of a sexual nature.
The health pass will be required for all events or places with more than 50 people, before being extended to restaurants, cafes and large shopping centres in August.
French head of state and and 15 members of the French government may have been among potential targets in 2019 of surveillance by spyware made by the Israel-based NSO Group, according to a newspaper report.
A planned 45,000 euro fine for businesses which do not check that clients have a health pass will be much lower, starting at up to 1,500 euros and increasing progressively for repeat offenders.
Mediapart has started legal action after revelations that two of our journalists had their phone hacked with the Pegasus spyware by the Moroccan secret services. The software, made by Israeli firm NSO Group, was sold to government clients around the world and was supposedly to be used only to “fight serious crime and terrorism”. But a date leak and investigations by various media around the world show that some countries drew up lists of telephone numbers that could be targeted with the spyware – and these lists include many journalists. Among them are Mediapart's co-founder and publishing editor Edwy Plenel and reporter Lénaïg Bredoux. Analysis has shown their phones were infected with the spyware by Moroccan agents in 2019 and 2020. Mediapart has filed a formal complaint with the state prosecutor in Paris, which has now opened a criminal investigation. Meanwhile it has also emerged that French president Emmanuel Macron's phone was targeted with the spyware by Morocco in 2019.
Data leak and forensics suggest NSO’s surveillance tool Pegasus was used against journalists at some of world’s top media companies. Mediapart was among those organisations targeted.
In Paris, one demonstrator's blouse read "No to compulsory vaccination, freedom violated!", while another's placard said: "Macron, no to the health dictatorship."
Health Ministry reported 10,908 new cases on Friday, taking the total to more than 5.84 million.; the daily new case tally was last over 10,000 at the end of May.
Drinking alcohol drinking will also be prohibited outdoors in the Pyrénées-Orientales département on the Mediterranean coast just north of Spain.
All his blog posts
The Mediapart Club
Join the discussion
Mediapart’s journalists also use their blogs, and participate in their own name to this space of debates, by confiding behind the scenes of investigations or reports, doubts or personal reactions to the news.
Le tribunal de Paris a relaxé Mediapart du procès en diffamation que lui avait intenté l’ancien élu Renaissance Emmanuel Pellerin. Il a même condamné l’ex-député, avocat de profession, au paiement de dommages et intérêts.
« Une heure à tuer », le spectacle de Waly Dia, est désormais accessible en VOD sur Mediapart. Ce contenu d’humour politique est complémentaire des informations que vous trouvez dans le journal.
Mediapart a désormais sa chaîne sur WhatsApp. Nous y publions quotidiennement une sélection d’articles et billets à ne pas manquer. Explications et invitation à nous y rejoindre, si vous êtes adepte de la messagerie.
Le journaliste français est mort vendredi 3 octobre en Ukraine, victime d’un tir de drone. Il couvrait cette guerre depuis le début de l’invasion russe et avait collaboré avec Mediapart à de nombreuses reprises.
Depuis l’annonce de la condamnation à cinq ans de prison ferme avec mandat de dépôt différé de Nicolas Sarkozy, l’ancien président de la République et ce qu’il lui reste de proches multiplient les attaques contre notre journal, à l’origine des premières révélations dans cette affaire. Mise au point de la direction éditoriale.
