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Speaker: Icelandic parliament deserves better treatment


Cleaning the Icelandic parliament building after last year’s protests on the first day of the autumn term had the same impact on the old building as a hundred years of erosion, according to Asta Ragnheidur Johannesdottir, the President of Althingi (speaker of the house). Read the full story

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Icelandic family home vandalised in UK


icesave1-03923943An Icelander living in the UK has been the victim of vandals at his home – apparently based on the Icesave debacle still causing friction between the two nations. Read the full story

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Norway searches for gingerbread town vandals


gingerbread-houseBergen’s traditional Christmas decoration – a gingerbread village – has been crushed, literally, by vandals who covered the crumbled ruins with paint and foam from a fire extinguisher. Read the full story

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Icelandic businessmen’s homes attacked with paint


506550Red paint was last night splattered on the houses of Hreidar Mar Sigurdsson, former head of Kaupthing Bank and Karl Wernersson, Head of the Board at Milestone, mbl.is reports. It is not know what sort of paint was used, but it appears to have been gloss paint. Read the full story

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Icelandic businessmen’s homes attacked


lögreglumennReykjavik capital region police released a statement this morning confirming that red paint has been thrown over the homes of Bjorgolfur Gudmundsson and Hannes Smarason, the former heads of Landsbanki and FL Group, respectively. Read the full story

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Copenhagen street party comes undone


squattersA city centre ‘party’ involving Copenhagen’s Hyskenstraede, a side street of the pedestrian street Stroget, turned insane as hundreds of people sporadically started vandalising the entire area. Up to 400 vandals destroyed property while police stood by and let it happen. Read the full story

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