Former German intelligence agent named as Roque M faced charge of attempting to share state secretsA former German intelligence agent who was also once an actor in gay pornography has been given a one-year suspended sentence 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. He was freed in July after prosecutors dropped most of the charges, finding no evidence of an attack plot or ties to Islamist groups. He told the court he pretended to be a jihadist planning an attack in online chatrooms because he was bored. As no evidence emerged of an actual Islamist plot, prosecutors left Roque M facing the sole charge of attempting to share state secrets.

Source: The Guardian September 19, 2017 14:26 UTC