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Police Press Conference: Planned Terrorist Attack Suspects Still In Custody, Investigations Ongoing
At a press conference held just moments ago, Grímur Grímsson, the chief of the capital area police; and Sveinn Ingiberg Magnússon, chief of police for the District Prosecutors office, revealed a little more information on their ongoing investigation of two men, currently…
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Suspect Denies All Ties With Far-Right Extremism, Lawyer Says
A lawyer for a man arrested last week on suspicion of conspiring to commit a terrorist attack says his client is innocent of these charges, and that contrary to previous reports has no ties whatsoever to any far-right extremist groups. [su_pullquote]Titans of…
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Man Shot By Police Under Two Week Custody
The armed man police shot and wounded in Egilsstaðir last Thursday is being held in custody for two weeks in the interest of the police investigation and public safety. Violations being considered in this case include attempted murder, physical assault, making threats,…
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Semi-Automatic Firearm Imports On The Rise In Iceland
Last year Iceland saw 13 times more semi-automatic firearms imported into the country than in 2019. In the preceding four-year period, zero semi-automatic firearms were imported in 2016 and 2017. In 2018 two were imported, 2019 saw 19 imports and in 2020…
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Netanyahu’s Sons Allowed To Enter Iceland With Gun-Bearing Bodyguards
The National Commissioner of the Icelandic Police has recently issued permission to the bodyguards of Israel’s Prime Minister’s sons to enter Iceland through Keflavík Airport bearing firearms, Stundin reports. According to Article 45 of the ‘Regulations on Police’s Handling and Use of Weapons…
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Icelandic Peace Activist Vindicated 16 Years After The Fact
Icelanders were recently shocked and appalled to learn that Icelandic airline Air Atlanta had made dozens of trips, from eastern Europe to Saudi Arabia, delivering many weapons of war to that country, including the internationally-banned landmines. This was done with the knowledge…
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Iceland’s Foreign Ministry Making Changes Due To Weapons Shipments To Saudi Arabia
In response to recent news that weapons bound for Saudi Arabia have been transported through Iceland some 25 times, the power to grant flight permits through Iceland will be moved from the Transport Authority to the Foreign Ministry. Minister of Foreign Affairs…
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Monday News Edit: What Are Icelanders Talking About?
Despite the blinding sun and the freezing cold, what has been on Icelanders’ minds as of late? Here’s a round-up of fresh debates, hot topics and crazy madness from these past few days. Nobody is more serious than Icelanders when it comes…
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Transport Authority Defends Weapons Shipments Through Iceland
The Icelandic Transport Authority has defended giving permission to Air Atlanta flights stopping over in Iceland to ship weapons to Saudi Arabia, but the Campaign Against Militarism has filed charges against the airline for breaking Icelandic law. As reported, Air Atlanta has…
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MP Slams Iceland’s Government Over Weapons Shipments Through Country
Weapons being shipped knowingly and illegally through Iceland to Saudi Arabia was a hot topic of discussion in Iceland’s parliament yesterday. Left-Green MP Rósa Björk Brynjólfsdóttir called the news “deadly serious” and “utterly opposed” to Iceland’s foreign policy. Iceland’s Foreign Minister has…
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Iceland Participating In Illegal Weapons Shipments To Saudi Arabia
Despite Icelandic law and international treaties banning the practice, Iceland has been knowingly greenlighting weapons shipments through the country to Saudi Arabia, which has been waging war on civilians in Yemen. Shortly after the matter was brought to light, the Icelandic government…
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Keflavík Airport Grinds To Halt Over Security Issue
Keflavík airport ground to a halt yesterday afternoon when all flights were put on hold and passengers asked to go through additional security checks, reports Vísir. Airport security doing their best to move passengers @kefairport pic.twitter.com/JBtoNXdyUh — Thinh Nguyen (@ThinhNguyen007) March 29,…
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Police Estimate 30.000 Unregistered Weapons In Iceland
A policeman estimates that around 30.000 unregistered weapons are in circulation in Iceland reports Vísir. Additionally he believes that AK-47’s have been smuggled into the country in Russian trawlers. “In Iceland there are about 73.000 registered weapons,” policeman Runólfur Þórhallsson wrote in a…
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Coast Guard Will Return Guns —As Soon As They Can For Free
The 250 machine guns acquired from Norway, by the Coast Guard, to share with Iceland’s Police forces, have not been returned as intended. According to the Coast Guard’s public relations manager, they are waiting for an opportunity to ship the guns back…
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Police Still Getting Guns
The highly disputed machine guns, recently acquired from Norway, only to be returned, will be replaced with weaponry from elsewhere, says the National Comissioner of the Icelandic Police (NCIP). This was reported today, Wednesday. In a response to inquiries made by RÚV,…
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Iceland Demanded Secrecy Over Weapons Purchase
The Icelandic Coast Guard demanded that its purchase of 250 machine guns from the Norwegian army would not be made public, according to RÚV. The request for secrecy was made as early as December 2013. This was revealed when RÚV asked the…
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Because This Is Not Disneyland!
Last Monday, the forecast predicted that any upcoming debates would be rather pointless, void of content and consequences. We have yet to see about the consequnces, but last week turned out to be pretty loaded with content. The content: Cargo. A somewhat…
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Water Pistols Against Police Submachine Guns
Friday saw a demonstration at the Reykjavik Police Headquarters at Hlemmur. People gathered to protest the armorization of the Icelandic Police. Last week, news broke out that police forces had acquired 250 MP5 submachine guns, among other weapons, from the Norwegian army.…
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Sufi Madness Destroys White Bread Rock Shock Horror!
Arriving at Iðnó and taking in my surroundings, the first thought that entered into my head is that it looked a lot smaller than it did in the pictures, without all those tables and chairs. My second thought was that it was…