06.06.2021, 13:43
Zitat:Europe demands answers after US-Danish spying claimshttps://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20...ing-claims
France warned Monday that alleged US spying on European allies using Danish underwater cables would be "extremely serious" if confirmed, as questions mounted over whether Denmark knew what the US was doing.
In an investigative report on Sunday, Danish public broadcaster Danmarks Radio (DR) revealed together with several other European media outlets that the US National Security Agency (NSA) had eavesdropped on Danish underwater internet cables from 2012 to 2014 to spy on top politicians in Germany, Sweden, Norway and France. [...]
"It is extremely serious," France's Europe Minister Clement Beaune told France Info radio. "We need to see if our partners in the EU, the Danes, have committed errors or faults in their cooperation with American services." He added it would also be very disturbing if Washington had been spying on EU leaders. [...] And a German government spokesman said Monday that Berlin was "in contact with all relevant national and international interlocutors to get clarification". [...]
Shortly after that, FE director Lars Findsen, his predecessor who was in the post until 2015 Thomas Ahrenkiel, and three other FE employees were removed from their positions but no full explanation was made public. At the time, the government said an audit had raised suspicions that FE was conducting illegal surveillance between 2014 and 2020. In November 2020, DR revealed that the US had used the Danish cables to spy on the Danish and European defence industries from 2012 to 2015.
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