A court in Copenhagen listened today, Friday, to the final arguments in the case of a Danish citizen of Syrian origin imprisoned due to his ties with "ISIS." Ahmad Samasam, who was arrested in Spain in 2017 and sentenced to eight years in prison, claims he was working as a secret informant for Danish intelligence agencies. Samasam (33 years old) was transferred to a Danish prison in 2020 and is asking the Danish Eastern High Court to recognize him as a secret informant in hopes of overturning the Spanish sentence against him.
Samasam traveled to Syria for the first time in 2012 to fight with a militant group. When he returned to Denmark that same year, authorities detained him not for his travel to Syria, but for unrelated offenses. In court documents reviewed by Reuters, he stated that during his detention, Danish intelligence contacted him, and he agreed to work for them.
Samasam visited Syria twice in 2013 and 2014 to rejoin the militant group, but he claims that this time he had a mission to gather information about Danish fighters in Syria for the Danish intelligence and military intelligence. He added that his cooperation with these agencies ended when he refused to join "ISIS" in 2015.
Both intelligence agencies declined to confirm or deny Samasam's claims in court, stating they cannot disclose the identities of their informants.
