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HEAVY ARMED: A police woman with a machine gun guarded outside court when the 40-year-old man was arrested in Copenhagen in December 2018. No court photos were taken after the case began on Friday. Photo: Sjørup, Thomas / Ritzau Scanpix
It was the planned victim of the attack who himself announced that he was being monitored. Danish police believe he would have been killed if they had not intervened.
It was on Friday that the trial against the 40-year-old Norwegian-Iranian began in Roskilde. The 40-year-old defendant is accused of spying on behalf of Iran in September 2018. He is also accused of helping the Iranian authorities plan the murder of an Iranian exile who has lived in Denmark since 2006.
In court, the prosecutor explained how the victim of the espionage even notified the police about what happened outside his residence in Ringsted.
After the man contacted the Danish police, the intelligence service installed a camera aimed at his home. On this surveillance camera, police were able to see, among other things, that the defendant took photos of the call facility outside the home, prosecutor Søren Harbo said.
Surveillance video was shown in court.
I looked for a hotel room for breakfast
The defendant then booked himself at a hotel in Ringsted, writes Ekstra Bladet.
Two days after the man was captured by the police surveillance camera, the police decided to search the accused’s car. There he found an air pistol and a knife outdoors.
FOCUSED: PET manager Finn Borch Andersen held a press conference on the matter in October 2018. Photo: Martin Sylvest / Ritzau Scanpix / NTB scanpix
Although the findings they made were legal, the police did another secret search, this time in the defendant’s room. This happened while the defendant was out of the room for breakfast, Berlingske writes.
There they found a camera with several deleted images of Iran, as well as images from the victim’s residence. During the 22 minutes that the defendants spent eating breakfast, the police copied the contents of the camera.
On October 21, the 40-year-old man was arrested in Gothenburg, Sweden, and then extradited to Denmark.
The accused admits to having taken the photos, but denies that he has cooperated with the Iranian intelligence service.
He wants the accused to be expelled for life
The man allegedly killed by the police was wanted by the Iranian authorities.
The Iranian authorities issued an arrest warrant for the man as early as 2008. He was sent to Denmark in 2009, but without the Danish authorities following him. Instead, the exile received police protection at one point.
The man is a leading figure in the ASMLA movement, an Arab nationalist rebel group that has been fighting since 1999 for the Iranian province of Khuzestan to become its own Arab state.
Iranian authorities have called the group a terrorist organization.
It was a massive call from the police when the case started on Friday. Actor Søren Harbø wants the Norwegian-Iranian to not only be punished for espionage and attempted murder, but he also wants the 40-year-old man to be expelled from Denmark for life. The case continues on Monday.
