At the end of November, the Bahraini Foreign Minister received a message from “Jean Barrot”: “Dear Minister, I hope you’re okay. Can we speak on the phone?” The message raised doubts in Minister Abdullatif al-Zayani and informed the French authorities that the phone number of the French Foreign Minister had probably been hacked.

Barrot's telephone was reportedly hacked on 25 November, when he was meeting in Italy with the other foreign ministers of the G7. The Minister received in encrypted form the link of a hypertext from the Signal application, the opening of which would involve the contagion of his Samsung staff.

The Barrot telephone investigation is now in the hands of the National Computer Systems Security Agency, which is responsible for checking whether the mobile phone is attacked by Pegasus or Predator spyware.

According to the staff of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, these hacking accounts began after the minister’s visit to Jerusalem on 7 November. Then, when the minister was present, the Israeli army arrested two French gendarmes in the Eleona space, which belongs to France, after identification of the gendarmes as French military. In the face of the events, the minister made a protest in Gaza against the Israeli Government, the press reported.

The two gendarmes asked the Israeli police not to enter that space and, after several discussions, both were arrested, according to the same sources. In the images recorded by French International Radio correspondent Sami Boukhelifa, you can see how the accounts happened in the X account of the network. Hours later, several people's phones from the EU Ministry of Foreign Affairs began to do "suspicious things" in the area. Journalists have asked about this in the ministerial cabinet, but there they know nothing about it.

The news was published this Thursday by the media Mediapart, which has been accompanied by Eitb.com.