French prosecutors say three people have been placed in custody on suspicion of spying for Russia and promoting its wartime propaganda, while a fourth suspect has been placed under strict police supervision.

Prosecutors said on Wednesday that the suspects held in detention include a 40-year-old Russian man filmed putting up pro-Moscow posters on the iconic Arc de Triomphe in Paris; a 40-year-old Russian-born woman known as the head of the French-Russian SOS Donbass group, and a 63-year-old man from a northern suburb of Paris.

A fourth suspect, 58, was spared pre-trial detention but placed under strict supervision and ordered to report to the police once a week.

The woman leading SOS Donbass, which presents itself as a humanitarian group helping civilians in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas re

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