Stella Mjöll Aðalsteinsdóttir, police officer [St]. Prosecutor [P]: What was your involvement? St: We got an announcement, we were in the station, we got an announcement about an attack and went down there. There were noises and uproar, we stood in the steps and never entered the benches. Down comes Andri, very agitated and difficult [...]
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Witness no. 11
19.1 / 11:09
Svava Snæberg Hrafnkelsdóttir, police officer [S] Prosecutor [P]: Describe your involvement in the protests at althingi 8 December 2008? S: I was in the office of the main officer at the police station, then we just see in live broadcast that something is happening and we go straight downtown to figure it out – we [...]
Witnesses 12-14
19.1 / 11:32
Magnús Böðvarsson [MB], physician. Prosecutor [P]: You examined … you are a confidential doctor for the parliament… you examined the parliament guards. There are a few individuals, can you describe your assessment of the injuries of Maria Ditas? MB: I examined her on the 12th, four days after the event. One of the men who [...]
Witness: Össur Skarphéðinsson, Foreign minister
19.1 / 11:51
Witness: Össur Skarphéðinsson, Foreign minister 11.51 Defense lawyer (D): Össur, where you in the parliament hall around 3 pm on 8 December 2008? Skarphéðinsson: I was there. D: Was it difficult to hold the parliament meeting that day? Skarphéðinsson: I did not think so, I’m used to various instances at court. I was sitting in [...]
Witness: Einar Kr. Guðfinnsson
19.1 / 11:59
Defense lawyer (D): You were an MP in december 2008? Einar Guðfinnsson (EKG) : Yes D: Were you at the parliament meeting 8 December 2008? EKG: Yes, I was there D: Do you remember a visit to the public benches that led to the meeting being postponed for a while? EKG: Yes, I remember that [...]
Witness no. 17
19.1 / 13:15
13.15 Witness 17, Pétur Sigurðsson (PS). Defense lawyer (D): You went into the parliament building on 8 December 2008? PS: Yes I went in there without being disturbed, there were a lot of people stuck in the chairs and a police officer preparing to kick people. D: Did you storm in there? PS: No The [...]
Witness no. 18
19.1 / 13:25
Sólveig (S) (defendant) is called in while the court waits for the next witness. Defense (D): Did you notice the parliament guard, Maria, locking the doors leading outside? S: Yes, it can be seen in the video, she closes the door and locks and looks at me and says “now you can’t get out”. I [...]
Last witness, no.19
19.1 / 13:35
Lárus Páll (LP) D: What is your profession LP: I am assistant nurse D: Were you in the parliament building on 8 December 2008? LP: Yes, I was there. D: Where were you? LP: I went all the way up the stairs, to the second floor. D: What was the purpose? LP: I thought it [...]
09:00 / 20. Jan – Day 3
20.1 / 09:00
Lunacy Reykjavik, January 20, 2011. The third and last day of the Reykjavik 9 trial begins under a full moon. The witnesses have all been questioned, and the only thing remaining are the closing statements of both sides.
09:10 / 20. Jan – Closing statement of the prosecution, 1st part
20.1 / 09:10
09:10 Closing statements of the prosecution 09:10 Audience are let into the courtroom, filling it up fast. The number of attending people is significantly higher than in the last few days. Most of the supporters were unable to fit into the courtroom. 09:14 Judges walk into the room and a part of the attending crowd [...]
The prosecution’s closing statements – part 2
20.1 / 09:25
09:25 All of this is subject to the various articles of the penal code, especially the 100th article of the penal code. [The judges reach for law books in half empty bookcases behind them (these bookcases have been the subject of interest of guests - half empty book cases are somehow half foolish). Probably the [...]
09:50 / 20. Jan – Day 3
20.1 / 09:50
Closing arguments of the prosecution – part 3. Sólveig is supposed to have pushed parliamentary guards to try to clear the way to the staircase, restraining Guðfinna and so on. All of this is visible according to Lára, where Sólveig has a “light woolen hat” and a “orange sash” [which she did not have, it [...]
The prosecution’s closing statements – part 4
20.1 / 10:05
10:05 Lára quotes the 106th article of the Icelandic law saying : „ He who violently attacks parliament, or threatens violence against a public official while they are doing their job, or if one uses the same methods while trying to stop an operation of such duties or to force the official to perform their [...]
10:15 / 20. Jan – Day 3
20.1 / 10:15
Closing Statements of the prosecution part 5. In Lara V. Juliusdottir´s second chapter the injuries that Andri allegedly inflicted on Parliament Guards and police are covered. She points out that, as previously stated, Andri is accused of attacking the police officers Albert and Stella. #Lara´s description of the events is that Albert “grabbed Andri´s left [...]
10:20 / 20. Jan – Day 3
20.1 / 10:20
Closing statements of the prosecution- Part 6 3rd section of the charge. There Snorri Pall is accused with trying to de-arrest a protestor. A protestor who was being escorted out of the court house is accused with spitting at a police officer, that police officer then wanted this man to come with him. Snorri came with [...]
10:30 20. Jan – Day 3
20.1 / 10:30
Closing statements of the prosecution – part 7 Lára goes over the sentencing demands of the prosecution and goes over the case of the defendants one by one, to see if any of the alleged crimes were subject to different sentencing. The prosecuter starts by mentioning that Andri Leó does not have a criminal record. [...]
Closing statements of the prosecution part 8.
20.1 / 10:40
Maria Ditas´s lawyer states her case. She summarises the case, Maria´s demands and all factors. The sequence of events was not especially explained; it is right to state that the explanation of the sequence of events as they are stated in her demand for restitution was based on Maria´s statement, and her lawyer based her [...]
Closing statements of Ragnar Aðalsteinsson – Part 1
20.1 / 11:00
Hearing commences at 11:00 The judge asks Ragnar Aðalsteinsson, defence attorney for 4 of the charged, Solveig Anna, Ragnheidur, Snorri Pall and Steinunn (the defendant who has been the most outspoken) to speak. The judge states that there will be a break at 12:00. ” Ragnar starts with: “I make the same demands of the [...]
Closing statements of Ragnar Aðalsteinsson – Part 2
20.1 / 11:30
Ragnar Continues: “Visits on the platforms of Althingi are not uncommon. The Reykjavík Housewife Housewife association visited Alþingi and filled the platforms – one hundred women were on the platforms – and were offered coffee afterwards. One might also mention the incident of Gísli Helgason who played the national anthem in the “gallery”, as Össur [...]
Closing statements of Ragnar Aðalsteinsson. Part 3
20.1 / 13:15
The closing arguments of Ragnar Aðalsteinsson, defense lawyer – part 3. break ends at 13:15 Ragnar continues his closing arguments and the charges made in this case. In the first chapter of the charges, offenses against the parliament, the authorities, the public peace and the public order are discussed. It does not seem to be [...]
Closing statements of Ragnar Aðalsteinsson. Part 4
20.1 / 13:31
Ragnar now refers to article 100 in the penal code. He says that the grounds for charging for art.100 is that weapons ere used. He refers to the incident in March 1949, where the high court believed that weapons had been used, and that was a prerequisite for charges being made in that case. An [...]
Closing statements of Ragnar Aðalsteinsson. Part 5.
20.1 / 13:50
Ragnar refers to a ruling in reference file: There the accused was found not guilty even though he injured police officers […] in that case it was an arrested man struggling. It is not the same as charging at the police with violence. To struggle in a situation like that is the natural reaction of [...]
Closing statements of Tryggvi Agnarsson
20.1 / 14:34
Tryggvi opens his statement : I contend this case on behalf of Jón Benedikt Hólm and Kolbeinn Aðalsteinsson. I contend from the start that the case of both my clients are completely comparable, where both are accused of the same things. Both have described the charges as wrongful and they have not been guilty of [...]
Highlights of the day – I
20.1 / 17:10
About the statements of the prosecution. Nothing surprising came up in the statement of the prosecutor, Lára V. Júlíusdóttur. But there were a few interesting things that came up. One of the more interesting things was Lára‘s attempt to make the defendants into an organized crime gang and her insistance that their case should be [...]