France’s Macron among potential Pegasus spyware targets: Report

Phone number of French president was identified as potential target for surveillance on behalf of Morocco, report says.

The phone of French President Emmanuel Macron was targeted for potential surveillance on behalf of Morocco in the Pegasus spyware case, French newspaper Le Monde reported on Tuesday. The French presidency said that if the revelations about Macron’s phone were true, they would be very serious. Le Monde said that, according to sources, one of Macron’s phone numbers, which he had used regularly since 2017, is on the list of numbers selected by Morocco’s intelligence service for potential cyber-spying.