France Charges Four in China-Spying Case That Targeted Starlink

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.

The case centers on two Chinese nationals in France who allegedly sought to obtain satellite data from Starlink and from other critical entities, including in the military sector. They were conducting satellite interception from an Airbnb rental property in the Gironde department in southwest France, prosecutors said.

Some of the suspects told investigators that ...