Neo-Nazis gather at Lækjartorg
Between ten and fifteen people gathered at Lækjartorg around noon and stood there under the flags of Norðurvígis, the Nordic resistance movement.
Norðurvígi is a neo-Nazi organization that has ties to The Nordic Resistance Movement, an organization that the National Police Commissioner has dealt with in relation to the threat of terrorism. Norðurvígi have, among other things, spread hate propaganda against asylum seekers and immigrants in this country.
The organization is made up of groups in Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, and now Iceland, who want to form a new united state of the Nordic countries. The groups in the Nordic countries use neo-Nazi rhetoric and have been implicated in acts of violence. Three people connected to the organization in Sweden were sentenced to prison in 2017 for a bomb attack in Gothenburg. The association is then banned in Finland.
Among those who gathered at Lækjartorg was Simon Lindberg, the chairman of the Nordic Resistance Movement, and he can be seen in the middle of the picture below. This Simon, who is a 36-year-old Swede, boasts of following the same political ideology as Adolf Hitler. He has publicly denied the Holocaust and claims that homosexuality promotes childishness.
Lindberg was sentenced to three months in prison in Sweden for having in 2006, together with others, attacked members of the gay organization RFSL and subjected them to violence. Last year was Lindberg so convicted for hate speech against minorities, for calling the Nazi salute “Sieg Heil” in a speech he gave in central Stockholm in 2016.
The organization’s website says that the Nordic Resistance Movement is a “revolutionary nationalist, social-minded political struggle organization”. It also says that the organization’s main goal is to spread propaganda.
“The organization’s main task at the moment is to spread propaganda to the people. Our main objective with our advertising is not only to recruit a large group of people, but it is to attract high quality, sharp and dedicated individuals. In a larger context, we use this propaganda to give the public a positive view of the Nordic resistance movement and national socialism, so that the public will willingly support and on the day we gain power in the Nordic countries.”
In a leaflet that the people who are now standing at Lækjartorg distribute to passers-by, it says, among other things, that people and the country are controlled by a self-appointed international elite who have gained control of banks, the media and the entertainment industry in western societies with enormous capital. “As a result, they have succeeded in keeping the people in the iron grip of slave growth, cultural Marxism and degenerate uncivilization.”