Worker at senate charged with treason

A French senate employee has been handed preliminary charges for treason for allegedly collecting and delivering information to North Korea, an official said. An investigating judge has placed Benoit Quennedey under investigation for treason.

Quennedey was detained by agents of France’s domestic intelligence agency in the probe, which began in March. He was suspended from his job as chief administrator for architecture, patrimony and gardens at the senate.

Quennedey headed the French-korean Friendship Association and often travelled to the Koreas.