Denmark 2026
30/01/2026: Zahra Halane, the 28-year-old woman who returned to Denmark on October 24, 2024 after joining IS, was sentenced by the Aarhus District Court to 5 years in prison and received a warning of deportation. The trial started on December 5, 2025. According to the verdict, she is guilty of recruitment for terrorism as soon as June 26, 2014, training and education for terrorism, promoting terrorist activities between 2014 and 2015 and of having resided in districts in Syria that were under IS' rule between September 30, 2016 and March 2019. Although Halane acknowledged settling in the so-called IS "Caliphate", she denied the charges and claimed she was coerced into joining IS. However photos and posts from social media allowed the Court to deem she voluntarily committed the crimes she was accused of. Born from Somali parents, Halane was stripped of her Danish citizenship on October 21, 2020 and even though deportation was considered by the prosecution, it has ultimately been assessed that such measure would be againt the interests of her 9-year-old son who retained his Danish citizenship. The latter was taken in charge by social services upon his return to Denmark and is reportedly chronically traumatized. Halane's husband who was an IS fighter died in battle. (Source)
03/02/2026: The Copenhagen District Court has sentenced two Swedes to 12 and 14 years in prison for terrorism. The trial started on November 12, 2025. Both men threw hand grenades near the Israeli embassy in Copenhagen, in October 2024 when they were 16 and 19 year-old. The grenades damaged the terrace of a house next to the embassy. No one was injured in the attack. The youngest said he did not know the Israeli embassy was the target, but the Court deemed that explanation not credible. According to the Court, about nine hours earlier, the man had fired shots at the Israeli embassy in Stockholm. Nonetheless, he acknowledged that he was part of the Foxtrot network since he turned 12 year-old and already committed various crimes for the gang, including murder. Foxtrot is often depicted as a "proxy" for hostile foreign forces such as Iran, to carry out attacks and terrorist activties in the Nordics. Prosecutor Soren Harbo said in a police statement that Foxtrot actually "operated as the armed wing of a Middle Eastern terrorist organization in Denmark, where the Israeli embassy was identified as the target of the attack". Both men will be expelled from Denmark to Sweden, never to return. However, they have appealed the verdict. (Source)
28/02/2026: Following the airstrikes on the Islamic Republic of Iran carried out by Israel and the United States of America on February 28, 2026 that resulted in the elimination of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei with risks of further escalation, Danish PET stated that they are closely monitoring the situation in the Middle East and have, prior to the ongoing conflict, already taken measures to ensure the safety of potential Jewish and Israeli targets against Iranian retaliations. (Source)
14/04/2026: In cooperation with Danish PET, Copenhagen's West Coast Police has arrested in Brøndby a 38-year-old man and 25-year-old woman for having promoted Hamas through the "sale of various clothing items" on Instagram and TikTok, in compliance with Section 114 e of the Criminal Code. Since Hamas is considered as a terrorist organization by Danish authorities, the arrest was carried out for condoning terrorism following a lengthy investigation. Both suspects have reportedly "shared images of, offered for sale and sold several different clothing items with motifs related to Hamas and/or the terrorist attack in Israel on October 7, 2023", such as "Two Years ago God shed his light upon us. Glory to our heroes, glory to their legacy" between January 2025 and the day of their arrest. Although the accused pleaded not guilty, they have been remanded in custody for four weeks. (Source)
24/04/2026: Two men have been sentenced by the Aarhus Court to suspended prison sentences for terror glorification after writing comments regarding Hamas's attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. The two men received suspended sentences for violating Section 136(2) of the Danish Criminal Code, which prohibits public approval of terrorist acts. The convicted individuals wrote comments on Ekstra Bladet's Facebook page under the headline "Israel attacked by missiles". A Jutland-based "provocateur artist" reported the comments to the police, initiating the investigation. The Court deemed that the men should have known that the situation concerned a terrorist attack. (Source)