Behind the Foreign Legion

What to know

Experience former Foreign Legionnaire Simon Nielsen telling an honest, moving and exciting story about his time in the French Foreign Legion. For this personal lecture, Simon Nielsen takes us into a fascinating, exciting and dangerous world, namely the French Foreign Legion. We move from military service in Denmark, through the intelligence unit on Bornholm and a stay in a prison cell to time as a combat diver and elite soldier in Corsica and finally back to Denmark again. Simon Nielsen makes us wiser about all that, and more, when he takes us behind the scenes of the Foreign Legion and gives us a raw insight into a world few of us have access to. Simon Nielsen spends five years in the Foreign Legion. He brings home with him a brutal recruitment period marked by violence and challenges, missions against Islamists in Africa and gold hunting in the Amazon. But also five years of brotherhood and recovery. About the speaker Simon Nielsen is a veteran, speaker and author of the biography Legionnaire: Five Years in the Foreign Legion. - Date: 7 October 2026 - Time: 19:00–20:30 - Venue: Roskilde Bibliotek - Address: Dronning Margrethes Vej 14, Roskilde, Denmark - Admission: From DKK 25