(Courthouse News) One of Denmark’s most spectacular spy court cases came to a preliminary end Wednesday, as the Eastern High Court declined to take up Ahmed Samsam’s lawsuit against the Danish domestic and foreign intelligence services.
Samsam, convicted of being an Islamic State group militant supporter, claims that he was working as an undercover spy for Denmark among fighters in Syria from 2012 to 2014, when he joined in the battle to overturn President Bashar Assad’s government.
Samsam hoped that forcing the Danish spy services to acknowledge he was an agent could reopen his 2018 Spanish National Court conviction. He was sentenced first to eight years in prison for his involvement with the Islamic rebel organization, but the sentence was later reduced to six years.
