Icelandic police have arrested 4 individuals in an operation linked to alleged preparations for a terror assault, regarded as the primary such arrests within the small Nordic island nation.
Talking at a press convention on Thursday, police stated a number of semi-automatic weapons, together with 3D-printed ones, had been seized at 9 places, in addition to “1000’s” of rounds of ammunition.
“The origin of the police operations yesterday … was within the context of an investigation into the preparation of a terrorist assault,” the nationwide commissioner of the Icelandic police, Karl Steinar Valsson, informed reporters.
4 Icelanders of their 20s have been arrested in Kópavogur, a suburb of the capital, Reykjavík, and within the south-western city of Mosfellsbær in a large-scale operation on Wednesday involving 50 individuals, police stated.
Two males arrested had been remanded in custody on Thursday.
Whereas potential motives have been unknown, the targets are believed to be “varied establishments of society” and “residents of the state”, in keeping with Valsson, probably together with the parliament and police.
Police stated they have been wanting into whether or not there have been hyperlinks between the lads and extremist organisations and that they have been in touch with overseas authorities.
“So far as we all know, that is the primary time that an investigation of this sort has been launched [in Iceland],” Valsson stated.
The small nation of 375,000 individuals has topped the International Peace Index because it was included within the rating in 2008 and is taken into account one of the crucial peaceable locations on this planet.
Violence is uncommon in Iceland, evidenced by one of many world’s lowest crime charges, though an increase in violent crime in recent times has nervous the authorities.
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