A team hackers and a human rights organization filed a lawsuit against the German government for conducting illegal espionage activities, aiding the National Security Agency (NSA) and its British counterpart GCHQ.
Η Chaos Computer Club (CCC), one of the largest hackers in the world, and the International Union for Human Rights (ILHR) filed a lawsuit against German federal prosecutors Monday. The groups accuse the German government, headed by the Chancellor Angela Merkel, for "illegal and prohibited covert activities of the intelligence services, for complicity and synergy of their activities, for violation of the right to privacy and obstruction of justice" for their cooperation with the NSA and GCHQ, according to the CCC press release.
"Now we know for sure that the secrets services of Germany and other countries have violated German criminal law.”
A publication of the German journal Der Spiegel αποκάλυψε τον Οκτώβριο ότι η Angela Merkel ήταν ένας από τους στόχους της NSA. Η Angela Merkel κάλεσε ακόμα και τον Obama για να αποσαφηνίσει το περιστατικό. Ορισμένοι Γερμανοί νομοθέτες έχουν ήδη αναφέρει την έναρξη μιας έρευνας για τις πρακτικές της NSA και επικοινώνησαν με τον Edward Snowden to support her.
Now with the new data it seems that the German government is not a victim, but a catalyst of the NSA and GCHQ. That is why the two groups are asking prosecutors to launch a criminal investigation, calling it "necessary and mandatory."
The CCC and the ILHR also ask prosecutors to call Snowden as a witness, to secure his passage to Germany and protect him from being issued in the United States.
