Letter from Copenhagen
Lars Findsen, former head of the Danish Defense Intelligence Service, during his trial in Lyngby, October 21, 2025. SEBASTIAN ELIAS UTH / VIA REUTERS
The verdict was delivered on November 5 at the Lyngby court, north of Copenhagen. The court ordered the Danish state to pay 20,000 kroner (€2,700) to the former head of Denmark’s military intelligence service (Forsvarets Efterretningstjeneste, FE), Lars Findsen, as compensation for the violation of his privacy. During a meeting at the Ministry of Justice on January 25, 2022, the head of the intelligence services (Politiets Efterretningstjeneste, PET), Finn Borch Andersen, disclosed details of Findsen’s private life in front of the Social Democratic justice minister Nick Haekkerup and leaders of six Danish political parties.
Only one participant at this meeting agreed to testify at the highly publicized trial held in Lyngby on October 22 and 23. Morten Messerschmidt, president of the far-right Danish People’s Party (Dansk Folkeparti), stated that during this briefing, he learned that Findsen “had a sex life in which he stole expensive bicycles from train stations, which he brought to a holiday home in northern Denmark where he exchanged them for sadomasochistic sexual services provided by his girlfriend.”
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