A former gay porn actor and German spy has been sentenced for attempting to share state secrets while pretending to be a jihadist online.
The 52-year-old, named as Roque M, was arrested last November in what initially appeared to be a case of an Islamist mole at work in Germany’s domestic spy agency.
Prosecutors dropped most charges in July, however, finding no evidence of an attack plot or ties to Islamist groups.
M claimed he had no intentions of meeting with Jihadists, but was instead taking the action because he was bored.
“I never met with any Islamists. I would never do that. The whole thing was like a game,” he told the court.
He claimed infiltrating the groups was an “escape from reality” at weekends.
M was eventually caught when he offered to share classified information about BfV operations with someone who turned out to be a colleague working undercover.
He’s now been given a one year suspended sentence.
German intelligence officials were prowling a digital hangout popular with Islamists when they discovered the surprising user last year.
The man was claiming to himself be a German spy and offering to help others infiltrate Germany’s primary intelligence agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV).
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