France Detains Man on Charges of Spying on Drone Factory for Russia: Prosecutor
- French authorities arrested a 48-year-old Belarusian national on June 3 for gathering intelligence on a drone production facility. The company supplies unmanned aerial vehicles to both French forces and Ukraine.
- The General Directorate for Internal Security established the suspect may have transmitted surveillance footage to a Russian contact, "The Paris prosecutor" said. The man was apprehended while recording a prototype drone.
- Similar espionage concerns have surfaced across Europe, including in Austria. Officials recently expelled Russian diplomats, bringing the total removed from Vienna to 14 amid suspicions of an "antenna forest" for intelligence gathering.
- Foreign Minister Beate Meinl-Reisinger condemned the misuse of diplomatic immunity for espionage, as the expulsions follow warnings that satellite dishes on Russian properties could intercept communications.
- Western intelligence officials report that Russia increasingly outsources operations to criminal intermediaries. This tactical shift follows mass expulsions of intelligence personnel from Western countries after the poisoning of Sergei Skripal in the United Kingdom.
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The Paris Public Prosecutor's Office has opened a judicial investigation for "association of criminals" and "delivering information to a foreign power" after the arrest of a man from Belarus who lives in...
The suspect, a Belarusian resident in Spain, was caught on 3 June at the Delair factory in Toulouse, and will have sent video to the Russian interlocutor.
On Friday, the Paris Public Prosecutor's Office confirmed the arrest of a Belarusian national in Toulouse. He is suspected of having filmed on 3 May a drone from the company Delair, which provides the Ukrainian army, and of having transmitted the images to an interlocutor in Russia.
"20 Minutes" takes stock for you every night about the conflict in Ukraine. This Friday, the Paris Public Prosecutor's Office confirmed that a man suspected of spying on a French drone factory for Russia had been detained in early June
A man born in Belarus was arrested filming a prototype of Delair's Toulouse factory. Paris Public Prosecutor's Office confirmed on Friday the arrest and detention
The spying aimed at the Delair factory, a flagship of the French drone industry and supplier to Ukraine.
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