Yesterday evening the Police in West Iceland arrested a man who is believed to have stolen a yacht from Ísafjörður harbor late Saturday evening. The yacht, which sails under a French flag and is owned by a French individual who has used it to sail to Greenland, was brought to Ísafjörður harbor last week, but had returned to France. He had intended to keep the boat in Ísafjörður over winter. The owner left Ísafjörður on Friday. A day later the yacht had been stolen.
The local news site Vísir reports that the thief was a foreign national. According to the Police the thief knew exactly what he was doing and knew hot to operate the boat.
It is not clear what the thief intended to do with the yacht, and where he was headed. According to the sources of the local newspaper Morgunblaðið the thief must have had at least one accomplice.The theft of the yacht was well organized. Morgunblaðið reports that the thief did not pick the easiest or most obvious yacht to steal from the harbor. One of the questions the Police is investigating is whether the thief had any connections to the owner of the yacht.
The disappearance of the 40 feet yacht, called Inook, was discovered around noon on Sunday. The thief had disabled the gps tracking device onboard the yacht. At two in Sunday afternoon the Police in the Westfjords requested the assistance of the Coast Guard in locating the yacht. According to the Police in West Iceland the a Coast Guard helicopter managed to locate the yacht and contact the thief, instructing him to return immediately to harbor at Rif on Snæfellsnes peninsula. The Coast Guard vessel Þór was also sent to the scene.
The yacht was then boarded by two Police Special Forces officers and two special Coast Guard officers who brought the yacht to harbor at nine yesterday evening. The thief had been in command of the boat for less than 24 hours when he was brought into custody.
Yesterday evening the Police in West Iceland arrested a man who is believed to have stolen a yacht from Ísafjörður harbor late Saturday evening. The yacht, which sails under a French flag and is owned by a French individual who has used it to sail to Greenland, was brought to Ísafjörður harbor last week, but had returned to France. He had intended to keep the boat in Ísafjörður over winter. The owner left Ísafjörður on Friday. A day later the yacht had been stolen.
The local news site Vísir reports that the thief was a foreign national. According to the Police the thief knew exactly what he was doing and knew hot to operate the boat.
It is not clear what the thief intended to do with the yacht, and where he was headed. According to the sources of the local newspaper Morgunblaðið the thief must have had at least one accomplice.The theft of the yacht was well organized. Morgunblaðið reports that the thief did not pick the easiest or most obvious yacht to steal from the harbor. One of the questions the Police is investigating is whether the thief had any connections to the owner of the yacht.
The disappearance of the 40 feet yacht, called Inook, was discovered around noon on Sunday. The thief had disabled the gps tracking device onboard the yacht. At two in Sunday afternoon the Police in the Westfjords requested the assistance of the Coast Guard in locating the yacht. According to the Police in West Iceland the a Coast Guard helicopter managed to locate the yacht and contact the thief, instructing him to return immediately to harbor at Rif on Snæfellsnes peninsula. The Coast Guard vessel Þór was also sent to the scene.
The yacht was then boarded by two Police Special Forces officers and two special Coast Guard officers who brought the yacht to harbor at nine yesterday evening. The thief had been in command of the boat for less than 24 hours when he was brought into custody.
