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The detainees have sold the fake results at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport for 150 to 300 euros a piece, the prosecutor’s office said on Friday.
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Investigators have found the results of more than 200 fake tests on mobile phones among the detainees.
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Due to the pandemic, several countries only allow entry after passing a negative Covid-19 test.
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French police launched an investigation after a passenger preparing to fly to Ethiopia was caught with a fake negative Covid-19 test.
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The detainees – six men and a woman – are scheduled to be tried in March. They can be sentenced to up to five years in prison and up to € 375,000.
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French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanen thanked the police for catching the counterfeiters on Twitter.
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