Accord*ing to sources mbl.is seen two men come from red KIA Rio car when he first comes into the har*bor on Sat*ur*day morn*ing. This can be seen from a secu*rity ca*mera in the area. The car stops at Green*land trawler Pol*ar Nanoq a while. From him walk two men. The car is dri*ven off shortly th*ereaf*ter. He runs sever*al times by the har*bor and th*ere again. In most of these trips seems to be a dri*ver tra*vel*ing alone. Is the time frame of between 6 and 6:30 Sat*ur*day morn*ing last week*end.
rbbmThe Kia Rio had been rented by sailors from the Greenlandic trawler Polar Nanoq, which was docked in Hafnarfjörður harbour, near the location where the last signal from Birna's mobile phone was detected. Birna's shoes were also found a short distance from where the trawler was docked.
Surveillance cameras from the Hafnarfjörður harbour area show that the red Kia Rio makes several trips to and from the trawler Polar Nanoq on Saturday morning. The travels of the car are described as "suspicious". Security camera footage from a nearby golf club also shows the car pulling into the parking lot, but speeding off as the driver discovers that a security camera was recording the parking lot.
Police have furthermore taken over control of the ship, set to dock in Hafnarfjörður later this evening. The operation went fast and well and police met with no resistance.
The two men will be interrogated later on tonight when the ship arrives. Police believe that they have information on the disappearance of Birna Brjánsdóttir, missing since early Saturday morning.
Divers and rescue teams searching for Birna Brjánsdóttir at Hafnarfjörður harbour. Iceland Monitor/ Ómar Óskarsson
oh no now we're on a search for her on the water....sad.
I was hoping she would be found safe.
She has not been seen on security cameras down by the harbour, so she never got out of the car (if she was in it) and never got on board the trawler. Also would be highly unlikely that she would ever get on the trawler, there's security there and over 20 people in the crew. I highly doubt this is some big conspiracy where everyone knows what happens. But hopefully the two people arrested do know something and will talk.
IMO.
Indeed, it is unlikely that she boarded the trawler, that information was probably released to be clear and avoid any " conspiracy" rumours, in any case, have not come across any.
On the night of 26 January 1974, Guðmundur Einarsson, an 18-year-old casual labourer, was walking back from Alþýðuhúsið in Hafnarfjörður to his home, 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) away. He was last seen by a motorist after he nearly fell in front of a vehicle.10 months later, on 19 November 1974, Geirfinnur Einarsson, a 32-year-old construction worker unrelated to Guðmundur, received a phone call whilst at home and drove a short distance to the harbour cafe in Keflavik. He left the keys in the ignition, but failed to return to the car.
Extensive searches around the harbour and coast did not find a body, and a murder enquiry was opened.
Six suspects eventually signed confessions of murder, even though they had no clear memory of committing the crimes. They had been kept in isolation and interviewed at length under pressure, including the use of water torture for the alleged ringleader, Sævar Ciesielski. He also later claimed that he was drugged to help him sleep, and this affected his memory. The suspects said they signed the confessions in order to put an end to the solitary confinement.
Sævar Ciesielski died in 2011. In 2013, an official police investigation report was handed to the office of the State Prosecutor. As of May 2014, no decision has been taken on quashing the convictions.
Police have arrested a third crew member of the Polar Nanoq, a Greenlandic trawler, on suspicion that he knows something about the disappearance of Birna Brjánsdóttir, missing since Saturday morning. The two men arrested earlier today on board the vessel are Greenlandic but the nationality of the third has not been disclosed yet.
All three of them will be interrogated upon arrival in Iceland this evening. Search of the harbour in Hafnarfjörður continues and divers are also searching in the harbour, despite the darkness of evening.
Police still have no clue as to the whereabouts of Birna Brjánsdóttir or what happened to her.