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Iceland is fascist!

Mona | 18.08.2005 03:51 | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

police and special forces, called Vicking Squat are following protesters 24h a daz , undercover and not undercover. The state and the immegration office has issued deportation orders for 21 protesters......


On the 13th of August a guy dressed in a tight white shirt and jeans, body builder type body, shaved head attacks a girl in the street. grabs her forcefully. The girl’s friend holds her and protects her from the attacker.
Another "bulldog" like guy turns up and takes the guy away from the girl, no explanation.
The two "bulldogs" ask for the girl to identify herself, she refuses, and screams in shock and pain.
Things get out of hand and forceful.
After more people come to help the "bulldogs" identify themselves as police, Special Forces.
They still don't let go off the two people (two protesters) and drag close to a big, Gray Jeep.
Neither of them was formally arrested.
The girl was released after, being taken to the police station in Reykjavik and asked questions.
She never got told why she had been violently stopped and "kidnapped" in the street.
Her friend, got arrested for helping her out, and held over night with no food or drinking water.
He luckily got to ring a layer, who came to his help.
On the same night a Professor of medicine, a 74-year-old man, went to the police station to show solidarity to the guy in prison.
The Professor thought that as a respected member of society he would be able to negotiate with the police and let them know how outraged he was about the inexplicable and oppressive behaviour of the police.

He arrived at the police station with two other Icelandic people and encountered violence. He got pushed out of the police station, fell over, hit his head and had a black out and blood come off his head as a result.
The police refused to call an ambulance.
The professor was taken to hospital and held over night, until 15:00h the next day.

Only two days later three policemen, in civil cloth, this time with batches that identify them as police, around their neck, again "bulldog" type guys enter a warehouse, where a lot of artists have their studios, and where the protesters have been living.
They don't have a permits to enter but do it anyways.
Two of the protesters hide, a girl and a boy.

After 10 minutes there is loud banging and lots of people running franticly towards the area where the loud banging comes from.
They witness the police dragging the boy out of the toilet. (They had broken the door)

Never the less the boy manages to escape (don’t ask how) and the girl never got found.

Both of the mentioned incidences got documented on video and photo.

The layer that helped the first guy, who got illegally detained, is currently taking legal action against the police.
With permission of all 21 protesters that have been put on a "black list" to be found and deported, the lawyer is demanding off the "Prosecutor" to
Investigate police behaviour with the help off a list off all the incidences that protesters encountered police behaving illegally and dubiously. Most off this cases have been documented, so the case is strong as there is enough back up.
The police has publicly announced that they wouldn't follow the protesters of prosecute anyone (only one day before they followed the protesters around all the way from East Iceland to Reykjavik).

Iceland is a police state it seems and the tactics the police uses to intimidate people that dare to speak up and make use of their democratic right to protest and express their opinion publicly are oppressive and violent.

Mona

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  1. Oh for god's sake... — FT
  2. Well thanks... — DTR
  3. All I'm saying is... — FT
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