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Iceland’s Supreme Court sentenced Pawels Jerzy Podburaczynski to seven years in prison today for taking part in the armed robbery of Michelsen watchmaker’s in October 2011.
The Supreme Court of Iceland. Photo: Páll Kjartansson/Iceland Review.
His sentenced was lengthened from the original five years announced by Reykjavík District Court. Podburaczynski’s three accomplices were all given five year sentences. The men have been referred to in the Icelandic media as the ‘Rolex Raiders.’
Podburaczynski was convicted in 2006 in his home country of Poland for robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery. The judges took this into account when handing him the longer sentence. He has also has a record of sexual offenses in his home country, ruv.is reports.
In Iceland, all four men were found guilty of having stolen goods worth ISK 50 million (USD 394,000, EUR 302,000) as well as four vehicles which were used in the robbery.
They were extradited from Switzerland to Iceland after fleeing the country and are believed to have traveled to Iceland specifically to carry out the crime.
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Four Icelandic contestants will participate in this year’s World Skills International, the world cup for industrial- and vocational subjects. The competition is held every other year.
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This year’s free English-language travel guide Around Iceland has been released, the 38th year in a row. The guide is also published in Icelandic and German and is distributed in 100,000 copies to the country’s most frequented tourist destinations.
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An international group of divers recently traveled to Þingvellir National Park in Southwest Iceland to explore this unique diving destination. A Polish guide, Michail Zinieuricz, who works for the DIVE.is, led the team of North Americans and a French couple.
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Iceland’s northernmost island is no longer one island. In a recent surveillance excursion to the Kolbeinsey, the Icelandic Coast Guard discovered that the island is now divided in two.
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The 2013 June-July issue of Iceland Review is out. Themed ‘We Are Young’ the magazine celebrates the arrival of summer by interviewing young energetic Icelanders who excel in art, sports, business and politics—and Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, the youngest PM in the republic’s history and the world’s youngest ruling state leader. Click here to take a look at a selection of the current issue and here to subscribe to the magazine.
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The road to Höfn, a 1,690-person harbor town by the fjord Hornafjörður, is lined with reindeer. Whole herds of the wild horned animals rest peacefully on withered pastures, grace next to sheep and horses and bounce along the road. Soon, Vatnajökull, Europe’s largest glacier and the region’s biggest attraction, comes into view. Looming over Höfn, its outlet glaciers flow down from the mountains on which the bright white icecap rests.
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Sin Fang will celebrate the release of his third album with a release concert in Iðnó on June 12. Flowers was released in February by Morr Music and has been well received by music enthusiasts and critics alike. The concert will be supported by Vök, this year’s winners of the Icelandic Music Experiments.
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