Denmark high court rules Dane in IS was spy, not jihadist

Denmark’s Supreme Court ruled that Ahmed Samsam, a Dane of Syrian origin previously convicted for ties to the Islamic State, was an informant for Danish intelligence services, potentially allowing him to overturn his 2018 conviction in Spain. The ruling highlighted failures within the Danish intelligence agencies, which admitted to their involvement hours later, while Samsam criticized their handling of the case as a “big mistake.”

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