Surveillance scandal that led to the resignation of The head of The Greek National Intelligence Service plus a senior official prime The minister, both of whom said Friday, rocked the country’s political scene.
resignations of Intelligence Chief Panagiotis Kontollion and the Prime Minister’s Secretary-General Gregoris Demetriadis “constitute a recognition of Guilty by Mr (Prime Minister Kyriakos) Mitsotakis over its own Watergate” main opposition party SYRIZA-PS . said in In a statement referring to the famous 1974 scandal that led US President Richard Nixon to it step down.
Maximus System ( prime Ministry) in flagrante delicto, and head of The system, Mr. Mitsotakis, apparently, not only knew but was the coordinator of The statement continued, “the wiretapping of the phone calls.
Last week, Contollion informed a parliamentary committee that his agency was spying on Journalist Thanassis Kokakis.
The closed hearing of the committee came after Nikos Androlakis, the leader of PASOK Socialist Opposition partycomplained to the top prosecutors About trying to hack his cell phone with Israeli-made predator tracker software.
“We assure Mr. Mitsotakis that there will be nothing left in The statement said.
“Everything will be investigated to the end, and he (Mitsotakis) will answer himself for This is illegal and undemocratic unprecedented post-junta pervert who tried in in order to establish his addedreferring to the Greek military system of From 1967 to 1974.
The government should Either go ahead with Immediate related prosecutions or resignation, leftwing Mira 25 party He said in a permit.
“Who if not government he is behind illegal spyware in Greece? Said Inside Story, Greek independent investigative journalism website.
Sufi in Feld, the Dutch MEP, called the scandal “Watergate”. on Steroids.”
“noticeable development in Greece in Connection with Predator spyware scandal. Senior Assistant (and nephew) of She said Prime Minister Mitsotakis has resigned. on Twitter.
criticism came also From a non-governmental organization based in Germany organization (NGO) European Center for Freedom of the press and the media accused the Greek government of Don’t do anything to find it out who he is behind The use of spying program.
“If we believe that government He has nothing to do with (spyware), it is strange that the Greek authorities, for Several months, you did nothing to find it out who’s using this is powerful malware” group He said.
