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France Charges Four in China-Spying Case That Targeted Starlink

A Starlink satellite-internet communication system router.

Photographer: Andrew Kravchenko/Bloomberg

French authorities charged four people with spying for China in a case that targeted Elon Musk’s satellite Internet provider Starlink.

Two were placed in custody and the other two are being held under judicial supervision, the Paris prosecutor’s office said in a statement Thursday.