A group of hackers and a human rights organization filed a lawsuit against the German company governments for conducting illegal espionage activities, assisting 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 secret activities of the intelligence services, for complicity and synergy of their activities, for violation of the right to privacy and obstruction of justice" for the cooperationwith the NSA and GCHQ, according to the CCC press release.
"We now know with certainty that the secret services of Germany and other countries have violated German criminal law."
A publication by the German magazine Der Spiegel revealed in October that Angela Merkel was one of the targets of the NSA. Angela Merkel even called Obama to clarify the incident. Some German lawmakers have already reported opening an investigation into the NSA's practices and contacted him Edward Snowden to support her.
Now with the new data it appears that the German government is not a victim, but a catalyst of the NSA and GCHQ. This is why the two groups are asking prosecutors to launch a criminal investigation, citing it as "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.
