Paris (France) (AFP) — The widow of slain Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi Monday filed a legal complaint in France accusing Saudi Arabia of using Israeli spyware to steal data from her phones before he was killed, her lawyers said.

Hanan Elatr Khashoggi, whose husband was murdered at the kingdom’s Istanbul consulate in October 2018, alleged her data was in part stolen in France, where she landed repeatedly while working as an air hostess, according to a copy of the complaint seen by AFP.

Citizen Lab, a specialized research body at the University of Toronto, found that her two telephones were infected by Pegasus, a tool made by Israel-based firm NSO Group, in April 2018, the complaint showed.

It said the infection coincided with her interrogation at an airport in the United Arab Emirates

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