NATO intern arrested over espionage suspicions

Belgian police on Friday arrested an intern at NATO’s strategic headquarters of the Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE,) suspecting her of “spying on behalf of a third country and of being a member of a criminal organization,” the Belgian Federal Prosecutor Office wrote in a statement on Saturday. The intern, a Canadian national of Chinese origins, “had come to the attention” of the security services of SHAPE, NATO’s strategic command for operations in Mons, Belgium. Belgian authorities searched her ho