Undercover policeman admits spying on Danish activists

Rob Evans and Paul Lewis

Mark Kennedy says he infiltrated community centre, obtaining intelligence that helped police storm it and close it down

The controversy over the undercover policeman Mark Kennedy has deepened after he admitted spying on and disrupting the work of activists in another European country.

Kennedy has admitted that he infiltrated a Danish community centre that had housed progressive causes for more than a century, obtaining intelligence that helped police to storm it and close it down in violent raids. (more on guardian.co.uk)

He told a Channel Four documentary, to be broadcast on Monday, that he was used by police all over Europe to gather intelligence on activists.