Olivier Peter, Anna Gabriel's lawyer, warned the newspaper 'was born Digital' that the former Cup deputy was also the victim of the Pegasus spying system. Gabriel travelled to Switzerland in 2018, after not testifying to the Supreme Court. The independence leader was accused of "rebellion, malversation and sedition." According to his lawyer, Gabriel received a statement in the WhatsApp instant messaging app in which he assured that "he could be spied on his mobile."

The Canadian cybersecurity institute Citizen Lab, investigating the WhatsApp social network, met with the intervention of 130 representatives of the "civil society", among them the cyber attack against the former president of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Roger Torrent. The Torrent mobile phone was spied in 2019 with the Pegasus spy system developed by the Israeli company NSO, according to the statement. This programme can only be acquired by States in order to take advantage of "the fight against crime and terrorism".