Faced with the generalization of telephone listening, the opposition deputies voted to open a parliamentary investigation.
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The listening scandal in Greece has crossed, on Monday, August 29, an additional step with the vote by the opposition of the opening of a special parliamentary commission of inquiry on the responsibilities of the Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotaki, in this state scandal.
“The spying of politicians, public figures, journalists and businessmen is not normal … We have a Prime Minister who did not know (…), who does not answer, who refuses to take His political responsibilities and continues to want to camouflage the listening scandal, “denounced Monday, since the Tribune de la Vouli (Parliament), the president of the parliamentary group of the Socialist Party (Pasok-Kinal), Michael Katrinis. A total of 142 opposition deputies, in an assembly which has 300 elected officials, voted in favor of the opening of this investigation.
On July 26, Nikos Androulakis, the leader of Pasok-Kinal, the third political force in Greece, discovers that his phone was the target of the Predator Espion software and listened to by the Greek intelligence services (EYP). He seized justice after a first complaint by a journalist specializing in corruption issues, Thanasis Koukakis, also placed on listening. These revelations resulted in two resignations on August 5, in the entourage of Kyriakos Mitsotakis: those of the Eyp chief, Panagiotis Kontoleon, and his nephew, Grigoris Dimitriadis, chief of staff of the Prime Minister.
The scandal, described by local media as a “Greek watergate”, is all the greater since, a few days after his election in July 2019, the head of government had placed Eyp directly under his authority, While he was previously attached to the Ministry of the Interior. 2>
“Waterloo”
The Kyriakos Mitsotakis defense line since the start of the case has not changed. He claims to have not been aware of listening to the socialist leader and assures that the Greek state “has never bought or used” Predator. But the cost of 14 million euros in spy software makes it difficult to access to individuals.
At the assembly for the assembly on Friday, Kyriakos Mitsotakis was lost in a series of attacks against the opposition without answering the questions concerning the case. He accused the chief of the left opposition (Syriza) and former Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of having also listened to him when he was in power. Then, he fueled the fears of citizens and affirmed the need to have an effective intelligence service in the face of a neighbor like Turkey who remains “unpredictable”: “war, energy prices, inflation, everything omen a very difficult winter. In addition, in the Evros [the Greco-Turkish border region], a new wave of invasion [migratory] is to be expected, this time hidden under the so-called mask of a humanitarian necessity. “
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