Iceland Weekly News Roundup
The Reykjavík Grapevine's Iceland Roundup is a weekly news oriented podcast show hosted by a rotating cast of staff members and hangers on, with special expert guests. Highlighting the broad strokes of Icelandic news and the local views.
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Iceland Weekly News Roundup
Iceland’s richest man spied on Icelandic citizens in 2012 + tourist held hostage & more.
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The Reykjavík Grapevine's Iceland Roundup brings you the top news with a healthy dash of local views. In this episode, Grapevine publisher Jón Trausti Sigurðarson is joined by Heimildin journalist Aðalsteinn Kjartansson, and Grapevine friend and contributor Sindri Eldon to roundup the stories making headlines in recent weeks. On the docket this week are:
✨ On Wednesday RÚV reported that Iceland’s richest man, Björgólfur Thor Björgólfsson, had hired police officers to carry out covert surveillance on a group of citizens who had filed a lawsuit against him. The operation reportedly cost tens of millions of krónur and involved three officers — two retired, one still on active duty at the time. We discuss this story and the fact that one of the former police officers, Jón Óttar Ólafsson, had also been subsequently been paid by rich Icelanders for various other tasks, including surveillance of journalists.
✨ We discuss a story about a tourist that was held hostage in Reykjavík on May Day.
✨ A Starbucks is set to be opened in Reykjavík later this summer.
✨ & a tourist was sexually harassed at the Blue Lagoon on Saturday.
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