Roger Torrent accuses Spanish Government of spying on leading Catalan politicians

[NewYorkExpress]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53409702

A leading Catalan pro-independence politician has accused the Spanish government of spying on his mobile phone.

Roger Torrent, speaker of the Catalan parliament, spoke out after details of the alleged espionage were revealed in a joint investigation by the Guardian and El Pais newspapers.

Mr Torrent said it was proof of "political spying against political opponents" in Spain.

Madrid has denied the allegations.

The Guardian and El Pais newspapers reported that Mr Torrent had been warned that his phone was targeted last year using Pegasus, an Israeli-made spyware tool.

[CumbrianLefty]

It will take generations to weed out the "political police" culture in the internal Spanish intelligence agencies left from Franco's time. They should be focussing on cracking down on narco traffic and Russian mafiosos on the Costa del Crime, not a bunch of LARPing Catalan nationalists who revel in their victimhood. 

Heh, you are so right of course

[Former President tack50]

To be quite honest, if true it just reinforces my theory that the Spanish Intelligence Agencies really are ran by morons and that "Mortadelo y Filemón" is based on reality