BARCELONA, 13 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Court of Barcelona has ordered the city’s Investigating Court 20 to take a statement from the director of the CNI, Esperanza Casteleiro, in the case that it is investigating as a result of a complaint by the ERC MEP Diana Riba and the president of ERC in the Parliament, Josep Maria Jové, for having been spied on with the Pegasus software.
The instructor dismissed proceedings that Riba and Jové had requested, considering them “useless” and now, in an order consulted by Europa Press, the Barcelona Court partially upholds the appeal of the complainants and orders those proceedings to be carried out.
The court also considers it pertinent to request information from the CNI on the purchase and use of Pegasus, and recalls that the law of prior judicial control of the CNI establishes that the director must request judicial authorization from the Supreme Court (TS), for which reason the judges indicate that , if Pegasus was used in accordance with this law, “this use would not be unlawful.”
