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From his prison cell, Ahmed Samsam tries to clear his name: 'It's a nightmare that will not end' | India | DR In an interview with DR, Ahmed Samsam tells for the first time why he has filed a lawsuit against the intelligence services. .But when Ahmed Samsam was sent to Denmark from Spain in 2020 to serve the rest of a terrorist conviction, the reception was differently warm.- I am received. It was like a welcome committee. In June 2018, Ahmed Samsam was sentenced to eight years in prison by a Spanish court for joining Islamic State on three trips to Syria. 2013 and 2014 for first the Police (PET) and then the Armed Forces (FE) and received payment for gathering information about other Danes. Ahmed Samsam was arrested in June 2017 during a trip to Spain. A year later he stayed in for fighting for Islamic State in Syria in the years 2012-2014 and to help finance terrorism and acquire 'weapons and materiel'. According to DR's information, Ahmed Samsam was sent out and paid by PET and FE during several trips to Syria. It happened with a goal about collecting information about Danish Syrian fighters. On one of the trips he also had equipment and materiel with him. Berlingske has in and the consequences for Ahmed Samsam. has since the verdict tried to get out and has now sued PET and FE to get recognition that .Since the arrest in Spain in 2017, he has worked to prove that he is not a terrorist - but sent agent in Syria for the Danes. An information the services have never officially confirmed. Ahmed Samsam says that his then lawyer is present at the airport and says that there are some people who would like to greet him. - It was my former commanding officers who wanted to hear what had to from my side to reach a settlement and put a lid on this case.- I will be happy. Then I get some hugs and they show empathy and sympathy. I pull on the smiley face, because I think, 'what has happened has happened, and let's get the best out of it', says Ahmed Samsam today in an interview in Storstrøm Prison on Falster. Here, as one of two, Ahmed Samsam has been interviewed for first time since he came to Denmark. I thought this was the end. This is where it ends. My nightmare is over, it's over. But I was horribly wrong. Ahmed Samsam about being transferred to a Danish prison When he recognizes his previous contacts at the airport, it makes him hope that the service will once and for all acknowledge the collaboration. And quickly the talk falls on one from, he says today.- They were very sad about the situation in general by like having the expression and the tears in their eyes. So I felt a pity on their part and that they were sincere with their apology. Ahmed Samsam says that a lunch table had been prepared for him. - We got some good tenderloin, potatoes and sauce. It was something I had longed for, after so many years in Spain.- I was quite optimistic. I thought this was the end. This is where it ends. My nightmare is over, it's over. But I was horribly wrong. Sources close to the process confirm that people from FE met Ahmed Samsam when he arrived in Denmark on December 10, 2020. The information has been submitted to FE and PET, who do not want to comment on the case. Ahmed Samsams meeting with the Spanish authorities begins in the summer of 2017, when he goes on holiday to Spain to serve a prison sentence, he will soon have to serve another crime, and to get away from a conflict in the Copenhagen gang environment.In Spain, Ahmed Samsam meets his big brother and a group of friends. But he does not know that two years earlier on May 8, 2015, he was "flagged" in the European police register SIS as a Syrian warrior and a possible "terrorist threat" .According to information, it happens because employees at PET who have not known for Ahmed Samsam's collaboration, was responsible for the registration. And the registration means that Spanish police start investigating Ahmed Samsam after he has crossed the border. The evidence from the Spanish trial states that one of the first things that Spanish police do is to obtain "intelligence through international cooperation ".It happens with a goal of finding out if Ahmed Samsam has a background in terrorist-related activities. Police think the Samsam brothers and their friends are behaving suspiciously. They change hotels, smoke and seem interested in weapons. This leads to an arrest on June 30, 2017.- When I get arrested, I smile and laugh a little at it. I think it's over in a few days. From there, it all becomes surreal, says Ahmed Samsam. Because on Ahmed Samsam's phone, Spanish police later find war pictures of Ahmed Samsam and his group from Syria and from Islamic State. Ahmed Samsam says that for his interrogation he tells Spanish authorities that he has worked for the Danish services. But sources say that PET does not officially confirm to Spanish police that Ahmed Samsam had worked for them in Syria - although Spanish police contact several times.PET also does not provide any material or reports to Spanish police about their views on Ahmed Samsam's travels, and on why no charges have ever been brought against him in Denmark. in the terror case. Therefore, according to CNI, it is too late to do anything. At the same time, Ahmed Samsam will not be allowed to present information from Denmark in the trial in Spain, where he was found guilty of having joined the terrorist group Islamic State and sentenced to eight years in prison. basically the right to speak to the media, but the law sets the framework for what an inmate may comment on. DR has applied for permission from the Danish Prison and Probation Service to interview Ahmed Samsam "as much as possible". The Danish Prison and Probation Service has given DR permission to interview Ahmed Samsam with audio, but the interview must not be about "the convicted crime" - ie the crime he is in prison for. DR must also not film or photograph Ahmed Samsam. The Danish Prison and Probation Service has also made it a condition to watch the parts of the interview that DR publishes to assess whether it will be a violation of the law. The conditions have been accepted by DR. The Danish Prison and Probation Service was not present at the interview, which took place with a tape recorder, and did not approve of the questions we asked Ahmed Samsam. The Danish Prison and Probation Service has not had any influence on which parts of the interview DR has decided to publish. After three and a half years in several Spanish prisons, Ahmed Samsam will be transferred to prison in Denmark in December 2020. This is where, according to sources, he arrives in Kastrup is met by employees from the Armed Forces. The site is visited by representatives from, according to information, Ahmed Samsam in prison. After the transfer to a Danish prison, Ahmed Samsam believes that he will soon be on his way to freedom. But it drags on. Several sources confirm that for more than a year there is a dialogue between and Ahmed Samsam's lawyer about a possible. where one of them, according to Samsam, says that he "must feel good during your imprisonment" .- Then he takes out the envelope, and then there are 10,000 in the envelope in blue notes. So those are 500-krone banknotes. I get them stuck in my hand. Ahmed Samsam says the two men explain that there are some obstacles but that they are working hard that he would get out of jail. Ahmed Samsam feels that they are sincere. - But then from there I have not heard from them since. That Ahmed Samsam was handed 10,000 kroner in cash, also appears from a document about the visit, which has received in. Several sources have confirmed Ahmed Samsam's explanation that the two men were from the Armed Forces. It happens in December last year.- It's the only option I have left. Try to imagine what it is like to live as a convicted terrorist. One has no future. Ahmed Samsam can not provide any physical documents that directly prove his cooperation with the services. He does not know the full names of his contacts and has no pictures of them. But has spoken to a number of sources with close knowledge of the case, which confirms Ahmed Samsam has performed the tasks for PET and FE, which he describes. missions to Syria, he has, according to experts, worked as a civilian agent for .Berlingske were the first in a series .It was back in 2012 that Ahmed Samsam was first contacted by. parents' homeland, to join the uprising against the Syrian leader, Bashar al-Assad. According to his own statement, he chewed on the idea and said yes to collecting information for PET about other Danes during his next trip. - If they later choose to use those they have got in Syria to commit some terror in Denmark, it is nothing , I support. That is why I said yes - I have family who use public transport which can be a terrorist target. So it can just as well affect my family as any other family, says Ahmed Samsam. It is bad publicity for the Danish intelligence service that you leave a person to his own fate when you do not help him when he has done so much for his homeland. Ahmed SamsamHe is leaving for Syria again in 2013, and this time, according to sources and his own statement, he will receive payment from PET. He says that the payment is 20,000 kroner. An amount which also appears from documents from Ahmed Samsam's trial in Spain. Here, the sender is a 'Jesper Madsen' with a Danish passport number. Ahmed Samsam will be transferred from PET to FE after his first trip to Syria, sources tell. According to Ahmed Samsam, the same thing happens in a hotel room in Nyborg. Here he meets for the first time his new contacts from FE. When asked Ahmed Samsam why he as a young man with a crime on his conscience and both friends and enemies in the Copenhagen gang scene initially traveled to Syria, he replies that he would like to away from his criminal career.Instead, he found new meaning in life by participating in the fight against the Syrian regime.- My intention was to get rid of Syria and the dictator.It was publicly known that Ahmed Samsam went to Syria in 2012. He appeared in this feature, where he told that he joined the group Kataib al-Iman: has seen Ahmed Samsam's subpoena of. Here are a number of details about Ahmed Samsam's travels to Syria, money transfers, meetings and talks, which Ahmed Samsam and his lawyer ask PET and FE to confirm. For example, there are details that Ahmed Samsam in 2014 should have received training in a military training area in North Zealand, and that he subsequently went to Syria in a four-wheel drive with a caravan paid for by FE. According to information, the cooperation between Ahmed Samsam and FE will stop in 2015, and he will not travel to Syria again. Two years later, he was arrested by Spanish police, and he has been in prison ever since. Ahmed Samsam has today a hope that by filing a lawsuit, he can soon have his name cleared and put the terror conviction behind him. - I have great confidence in the Danish legal system.- It has cost dearly. Both financially, and physically and emotionally. It's a nightmare that will not end. But I hope something happens soon.t is the first time, has been sued.- It is bad publicity for Danish that you leave a person to his own fate when you do not help him when he has done so much for his homeland, says Samsam. Neither PET nor FE will comment on Ahmed Samsam's statements or the lawsuit he has filed against them. PET and FE do not believe they can be required to give evidence in a forthcoming trial. They refer to the state's security and the interests of the kingdom. In the defense of the lawsuit, the state's lawyer writes that the Spanish judgment has fallen "on the basis of a very thorough presentation of evidence". The Ministry of Defense, to which the two belong, wants to comment on the case or the information that Ahmed Samsam brings in this article. That is when that trial comes to court. See the full interview with Ahmed Samsam tonight in 21 Sunday on DR1.