ABTTF President: “The government should immediately clarify all aspects of the wiretapping scandal that has become the ‘Watergate’ of our country and should not allow the scandal to further damage our country’s democracy and rule of law.”
In our country Greece, where the National Intelligence Service (EYP) is bound to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and that it has been apparent that journalist Thanasis Koukakis along with opposition party PASOK-KINAL President and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Nikos Androulakis were illegally wiretapped with the spyware program ‘‘Predator’’, the dimensions of the scandal are getting even more complex.
In the news published in Documento newspaper, it was claimed that 32 persons from the political, media and business spheres, including former Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikos Dendias and former Ministers of Citizen Protection Michalis Chrisochoidis and Olga Gerovasili, were tapped with the spyware program ‘‘Predator’’.
On the other hand, Kostas Vaxevanis, owner of Documento newspaper, went to the Court of Cassation (Areios Pagos) on 7 November 2022 to testify about the new allegations regarding the wiretapping scandal.
“Although Prime Minister Mitsotakis denied the allegations in the news report of the Documento newspaper, the wiretapping scandal has now become a democracy and legal issue for our country. The Committee of Inquiry to investigate the use of Pegasus and equivalent surveillance spyware of the European Parliament, which investigates the use of spyware by governments, also stated that after visiting Athens last week to investigate the wiretapping scandal, it left our country with more questions than answers. If the allegations are true and even the closest colleagues of Prime Minister Mitsotakis can be wiretapped illegally, the point reached by the deep state’s power in our country is truly frightening. The government should immediately clarify all aspects of the wiretapping scandal that has become the ‘Watergate’ of our country and should not allow the scandal to further damage our country’s democracy and rule of law”, said Halit Habip Oğlu, President of the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF).
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