An Icelandic police report, which they recently sent me on a freedom of information request, details what happened when I was poisoned at the Bar Ananas in Reykjavik on May 11, 2017. I spent the night in the Emergency Department at Landspítali, the National University Hospital of Iceland, suffering from serious symptoms of poisoning that were not adequately treated.
The police treated four people as suspects in the investigation:
1) Sindri Geirsson, the proprietor of the Prikið Kaffihús in Reykjavik, down the street from the Bar Ananas. He handed me the poisoned drink;
2) Sigurður Ólafsson, a friend of Sindri Geirsson who sat by his side at the bar, and who went (as can be seen on the recording from the security camera) into the bathroom with a siphon. He returned to the bar and can be seen stirring the drink that was later brought to me with a siphon under the bar table. He was also seen squeezing something from the siphon into my glass.
3) Sigurður Hreiðar Elíasson, who walked up to me, shook my hand, and said: “Fuck you!” The report the police took of him is very short. He claimed he couldn’t have put anything in my glass since he had to stretch across a person sitting by my side to shake my hand.
4) The taxi driver who drove us to the Bar Ananas.
It is important to note that only two of the four suspects or defendants asked for their lawyer to be present during their interrogation: Sindri Geirsson and Sigurður Ólafsson. This is the same pair that can be seen in the recording of the security camera, acting very suspiciously. They were eventually charged by the Investigative Branch of the Police, which wanted the case brought to the court for judgment.
Under interrogation, both Sindri Geirsson and Sigurður Ólafsson denied they had poisoned me. They were shown the recording of the security camera; each time something was shown that implicated them in the act, they were asked “What were you doing?” Or “Why did you do that?” They repeatedly responded: “I don’t remember.” Asked if they themselves used illegal drugs, both Sindri Geirsson and Sigurður Ólafsson denied doing so. When the police reminded Sindri Geirsson that he had been involved indirectly in a drug bust that happened at a party while he was present, Sindri Geirsson said he was there only because he knew so many people from the nightlife. When he was asked if his friend Sigurður Ólafsson used drugs, Sindri Geirsson said he used amphetamines sometimes, but not often. Sigurður Ólafsson denied using illegal drugs. When the police told him that his friend Sindri Geirsson had claimed he used amphetamines, Sigurður Ólafsson said Sindri Geirsson was lying.
A security camera picked up Sindri Geirsson and Sigurður Ólafsson and another Icelander who was treated as a witness in this case smoking outside as they met Sigurður Hreiðar Elíasson; they were pointing and looking in the window of the bar/restaurant at where our group was seated. At the beginning of the security camera recording, the three of them, Sindri Geirsson, Sigurður Ólafsson and the witness can be seen sitting together at the bar when Sindri Geirsson points in my direction. Sigurður Ólafsson and the witness both claim that Sindri Geirsson recognized who I was, but they did not, but confirmed it was so after having looked at news on the internet about me via their mobile phones. The recording does not show this witness taking an active part in committing the crime.
Reviewing the results of the investigation, Assistant Prosecutor Kjartan Ólafsson wrote a letter dated August 25, 2017 to the District Public Prosecutor, saying that in light of the recordings of the security camera and other things brought forward in the investigation that this was a criminal case that should be brought to court, because there was a likelihood of conviction against Sindri Geirsson and Sigurður Ólafsson. In his letter, he says: “The accused in the case are suspected of having poisoned Robert Bruce Spencer with narcotics by putting a combination of amphetamine and MDMA into his drink.”
The Assistant Prosecutor also writes: “A recording from the security camera of the place shows the accused Sindri hand a siphon over to the accused Sigurður, who afterward takes the siphon to the bathroom. When he comes back to the bar, he takes the drink into his hands, and puts in under the bar table and seems to be doing something with it. Afterward, he stirs continuously in the drink like he is mixing something into it. The accused are at this point very secretive and there is no doubt that there is something more going on than just a simple ordering of a drink.”
It can also be seen in the recording that before Sigurður Ólafsson goes into the bathroom with the siphon he takes something from his right pocket and shows it to Sindri Geirsson and to the witness. It can also be seen that just before Sigurður Ólafsson enters the bathroom, he puts his hand in his right pocket. The recording shows also that Sindri Geirsson is also stirring in the drink, and one point there are two siphons in the glass. They ordered three drinks in three similar glasses, and the drink that was brought to me was the only one that had a siphon in it. “The alleged poisoned drink is the only one marked by a siphon,” the police say in their description of the events shown in the recording of the security cameras.
The Assistant Prosecutor concludes: “In light of all this and given the evidence of the case, especially the recordings of the security cameras, I think this case if brought to court would likely result in a guilty verdict.”
The investigation of this poisoning case was handed over to the District Public Prosecutor on August 25, 2017. About seven months later, on April 5, 2018, the District Public Prosecutor (in a letter signed by Pétur Hrafn Hafstein, Representative of the District Public Prosecutor) said a follow-up investigation was needed. He requested two things:
1) A note from the doctor who was supposedly caring for me in the hospital emergency room, Hjalti Már Björnsson, whose gross and likely politically motivated negligence and violation of his Hippocratic Oath I explained in an ethics complaint I filed against him with the Icelandic Medical Board. Hjalti Már Björnsson downplayed and obfuscated what he had to acknowledge were clear symptoms of poisoning in his medical report, lied about what I told him, and failed to take basic tests that should have been done on any emergency room patient. It later turned out that he was a highly politicized Leftist – which explains his criminal negligence and false claims, as well as his strongly urging me to end my work.
Dr. Andrew Bostom, who is a practicing physician as well as a premier researcher of jihad and Islamic antisemitism, examined the records of my emergency room stay and wrote to me:
This was a dismissive work-up of a middle-aged man who was at risk for potentially catastrophic acute illness: myocardial infarction, pulmonary embolus, status asthmaticus, etc. ad nauseam, and who was already suffering from tachycardia and tachypnea, with low sodium and detectable levels of potentially toxic amphetamines clandestinely spiked into something he drank unwittingly.
At minimum, you should have been placed on continuous electrocardiogram monitoring for rhythm, had a 12-lead ECG and cardiac enzymes drawn to rule out a heart attack, had simple pulse oximetry continuously, and routine blood pressure, and other vital signs monitoring serially with full documentation in the ER Record until all your vital signs normalized.
None of that was done. Was Hjalti Már Björnsson hoping I would just die?
2) The blood sample and urine sample that the hospital took. The representative of the District Public Prosecutor also said in his letter if there was no longer any blood sample and if it was not possible to measure the quantity of the drugs in the urine sample, it “might be necessary to discontinue the investigation.” To back up this assessment, Pétur Hrafn Hafstein cites a paragraph from the code of criminal procedure. And as was to be expected, no blood sample or urine sample was available, as this was nearly a year after the incident. The hospital claimed it was a standard procedure of the hospital to dispose of all samples four days after they had been taken. The report Hjalti Már sent on July 18, 2018 contained basically the same lies and misinformation he had sent to the Ethical Committee of the Icelandic Medical Association on August 29, 2017.
All this is clear from the police report. Two things, however, were missing from the files that the Icelandic police sent me about their investigation: the second page of the report from Hjalti Már Björnsson to the police, and the testimony of the fourth suspect to the police. I have requested this information, but Icelandic authorities have not replied.
I went to the police on May 13, 2017. The police investigated the matter and submitted their conclusion to the District Prosecutor on August 25, 2017, after only three months and ten days. My contacts in Iceland tell me that this is very quick work given the workload they have; they must have given my case priority. But then it took the District Prosecutor around seven months to write one simple letter requesting a follow-up investigation, and stated already at that point (April 5, 2018) in the letter that if the blood sample or urine sample was not to be found, they might need to call everything off.
Did they really expect the hospital to keep these samples for eleven months? Was this the District Prosecutor’s way of sabotaging the case? Did they wait all those months in order to ensure that the samples would be unavailable? Were they afraid they would lose the case because the lawyers for the poisoners would get the quack doctor Hjalti Már Björnsson to testify on their behalf and lie again?
One of the people who invited me to speak in Iceland commented: “I know for sure there is not always a good working relationship between judges and the police, even to the point of being hostile. But at the same time, if there is any political motive behind this, it most certainly came from the top, not from the investigative police themselves.”
Nonetheless, the police report and medical report make what happened abundantly clear. Sindri Geirsson and Sigurður Ólafsson should be in prison right now for poisoning me. Since Sindri Geirsson is the proprietor of the Prikið Kaffihús in Reykjavik, down the street from the Bar Ananas, both of these places should be shut down as hazards to the public health, or at very least, Sindri Geirsson should be made to divest himself of his interests in the Prikið Kaffihús and never again allowed to work in a place that sells food or drinks. Hjalti Már Björnsson should be permanently barred from practicing medicine.
None of this will happen, of course. Because Sindri Geirsson, Sigurður Ólafsson and Hjalti Már Björnsson are Leftists and I am not, they suffered no consequences for their actions. At least now what happened is a matter of public record, as is the willingness of Icelandic authorities to allow a man to be victimized if he doesn’t hold the accepted political opinions.
Tony Naim says
My God. This is horrific. You’ve gone through so much in the past couple of years Mr Spencer. Rest assured you are one of my favorite scholars and historians . Very few people would dare take on radical Islam like you do.
God bless you and keep you healthy , for the sake of all of us.
Any chance that poisoning may have triggered a sequence of events that led to your illness recently?
gravenimage says
I was wondering the same thing, Tony.
Roland says
I’m not a medical professional, but it seems reasonable to suspect a connection between the poisoning and Bob’s recent health problems. I only wish Bob smooth sailing from here on. The conduct of Icelandic authorities in this case has been despicable.
carpediadem says
Sadly the leftist orientation of judges and others is very common and due to this they take it upon themselves to act as they want things to be rather than apply the law. This is not restricted to Iceland.
Very bad luck Robert, but you were lucky to escape with your life.
We all value it and you.
Undaunted says
Bob?
He calls himself Robert. You should give him that respect, he’s earned it, Rollie.
gravenimage says
“Bob” *is* a bit familiar, but I don’t think that Roland intended any disrespect, Undaunted.
gravenimage says
And good to see you posting here again, Undaunted.
observer says
Undaunted says
Dec 4, 2019
Bob?
He calls himself Robert. You should give him that respect, he’s earned it, Rollie.
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Strongly agree !
Wellington says
“The left will not stop until they destroy us.”
Completely agree and why Leftism is even more of a menace to liberty than is Islam because it is the rot within as opposed to the rot without.
June says
Mr. Spencer, God bless you and do like one of my cousins. Try to take your own food. There are many out there who would want to harm you. This really wasn’t a reply to Tony’s post but didn’t know how to do a post. My first time ever posting anything but what has happened to you is surely vile. I wasn’t even aware that this happened to you.
Paul says
This is outrageous Robert, is there anything your State Dept can do? I’m glad you pulled through that as well as your more recent medical episode. I hope the two are not related. With respect, from Oz.
mccode says
And the FBI recommends against charging Hillary.
Is there justice in the world when the evidence is so overwhelming, here as well?
Not when the leftists can interfere.
Battle says
Robert Spencer: +100
rsklaroff says
Did you retain your own “blood sample and urine sample”?
smoris says
That probably wouldn’t have helped – due to “chain of custody” issues. The best thing now is to have a travel advisory issued by the state dept. so that Americans know that Iceland is not a safe place for them to visit.
Sobieski says
Exactly. This needs to be made known to everyone. Do not travel to this horrible place.This Icelandic doctor and the prosecutors are basically accomplices after the fact. Disgusting, unethical, vile leftists work together.
DP111 says
Good idea. And spread the message that Icelandic health and justice systems are tainted.
Barb says
Robert,take all the wrong doers to court and sue the authorities for lack of DUTY of CARE and they meet all your medical & legal & travel costs!
If you don’t make a public example of these wicked people who will be their next victim?
Thank God you were not killed!
gravenimage says
Iceland Police Said Guilty Verdicts Likely for Leftists Who Poisoned Robert Spencer, But Prosecution Was Quashed
………………
This is just horrifying–including the shoddy treatment at what should be one of the finest hospitals in Iceland. *Deeply* disturbing.
Michael Copeland says
Disgraceful.
Wellington says
Profound shame on Iceland. Robert Spencer has more balls than all of Iceland put together does.
Don’t patronize, visit or extend any respect to this sorry-ass excuse for a country which, considering its very small population, would be a just “wonderful” place for Muzzies, aided by clueless leftists (excuse the redundancy) to assert another parasitic dominance.
Icelanders: Your nation is now in peril. You know this or should know it.
Westman says
Wellington,
It’s in peril more than one way. Iceland has over 10% first-generation immigrants and a total fertility rate of 1.7 per family. Much of that immigration is due to the shengen no-borders agreement. Islam is very small in Iceland, so the population has little experience with it but thinks it will be like the past immigration from Poland, Denmark, and the US. Big surprise coming. The immigration is only increasing and Iceland will lose its culture regardless of the Islamic content. Apparently Iceland, like Sweden, doesn’t care. With only 333,000 population it will be swamped.
It seems that this Icelandic misconception, that immigration from Islam will be like immigration from Europe, has led to the attitude by these “poisoner” (druggie) thugs that Robert Spencer somehow was racist, and therefore deserved to be hassled. They will be quite embarassed by their behavior in the coming years when they get jihad messages from their own Muslims; not an adequate punishment for attempted murder.
Wellington says
Indeed, Westman.
Man is so stupid again and again, Iceland in our era serving as a recent example.
Chuck Jones says
In 30 years that place will look like Saudi Arabia.
commonsense says
Westman and friends:
Geirsson, owner of the bar (which presumably serves alcohol), along with his despicable cohorts, will one day discover that his bar will be targeted for attack by those, in his arrogance and abysmal ignorance, he thinks are harmless immigrants, who should be welcomed into Iceland. He will experience a rude awakening, indeed.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, commonsense. These thugs are not only evil, they are ultimately cutting their own throats.
DP111 says
Serves them right.
DP111 says
Boycott Icelandic produce if any
Infidel says
Do they export anything? Including cod? Fish is all they have to live on!
Jedothek says
Thus is awful in so many ways. For example: is there a trend toward physicians harming or failing to help their patients because of political dogma? See the case of Lara Kollab. Some readers will think I am being alarmist, but this kind of breakdown of ethics means the end of civilization.
Roland says
When admitted to a hospital or meet a new doctor, I no longer tell them my religion for chaplaincy purposes. I have an ethnically neutral name. I don’t discuss politics beyond the usual banalities. The golden age of American and Western freedom is over.
gravenimage says
This is so ugly–it should make no difference professionally to a doctor what one’s religious or political views are.
Reziac says
Is your name Mohammad, or perhaps Abdul? No? Then you are not a Muslim, and can be freely targeted.
I wish I was being sarcastic.
gravenimage says
I’m talking about civilized standards of medicine.
Jake says
Make a criminal complaint in the US. Make a formal complaint to someone here. At least that might prevent them from ever visiting the US.
Reziac says
File a lawsuit seeking damages, in the millions of dollars. File more lawsuits. Target everyone involved. Make their lives legal hell. Make this an expensive escapade, as a warning to others.
mgoldberg says
I can only hope that a negligence suit is in the works. This kind of treatment is horrific. Seriously deficient.
That the E.R. doctor could act with such malfeasance should be pursued for damages against the hospital.
Of course, I don’t know what their legal system is in Iceland, but I would hope that the hospital, taken to court for the actions of one of its physicians would be held accountable as well as the doctor.
Dapto says
Iceland another S hole country where the rule of law no longer exists. Time for international sanctions on this country.
lisa says
That is horrible. Cant you sue Iceland? The hospital? The bar? These people?
No Fear says
Stay well Robert. The world needs you.
gravenimage says
Hear, hear!
Max says
This is proof that the leftists are willing to do whatever it takes to achieve their filthy aims. If that requires killing a person or persons, so be it.
shoehorn says
Robert, do you have a toxicology report that indicates presence of amphetamines (including MDMA)?
‘if there was no longer any blood sample and if it was not possible to measure the quantity of the drugs in the urine sample, it “might be necessary to discontinue the investigation.”’
That’s just obfuscation; quantitative analysis is irrelevant if the original sample contained specific chemicals, e.g. MDMA.
Robert Spencer says
Yes, but the prosecutors had that when they demanded the samples.
rubiconcrest says
Iceland is supposed to have one of the best health systems in the world and lowest crime rates. Robert’s experience makes you wonder if either stat is really what we think it is.
James Lincoln says
I’m a physician currently board-certified in two specialties including family practice. I have worked emergency rooms in medium-sized community hospitals.
I have reviewed the one page medical report found on the link below:
https://www.wnd.com/2017/08/prominent-islam-critic-files-complaint-over-poisoning/
The medical report from the emergency department reflected medical care by Dr. Hjalti Már Björnsson that was substandard:
-Erroneous emphasis on “stress” pertaining to Roberts work.
-Physical exam does not include documentation of a neurological exam.
-Sodium level was low at 126. Normal sodium level is between 135 – 145 mEq per liter. Ecstasy can induce hyponatremia – a low sodium value – which can be very dangerous particularly from a neurological point of view.
-Testing showed a urine drug screen positive for amphetamines and MDMA ecstasy. Regardless, the ER physician wrote that Robert’s symptoms were most consistent with a “panic attack”.
Dr. Andrew Bostom, reviewed the ER medical report, accurately pointed out the deficiencies of the history, physical, assessment, and plan. The risks were high and the treatment was substandard. I agree, continuous cardiac monitoring, pulse oximetry, serial vital signs, 12 lead EKG / cardiac enzymes should all have been done – and robustly documented.
Due to the risk factors, my personal preference would have been continuous monitoring of vital signs, judicious use of IV fluids, etc., until stabilized. I would also have recommended admission to the hospital, at least overnight for observation and re-testing of labs, etc…
Based upon the above, the medical treatment that Robert had received was substandard and medically negligent. At least in the United States, in order to prove medical malpractice you need these 4 items:
1. Existence of a legal duty
2. Breach of that duty
3. Causal connection between the breach and injury
4. Measurable harm from the injury
Since Robert apparently “recovered”, a malpractice suit, unfortunately, may not go far…
gravenimage says
Thank you so much for your professional analysis, James.
Wellington says
Seconded.
shoehorn says
Even if the doc gets off the hook, the drink-spikers surely can not: ‘Testing showed a urine drug screen positive for amphetamines and MDMA ecstasy.’
gravenimage says
It looks as though they already have…
Juan says
LEFTISTS ARE EVIL FASCIST A____HOLES
They will try to kill you because that’s the only way to completely silence you.
They will silence you because they cannot debate you.
They cannot debate because they know they would lose.
They would lose because the truth and facts are not on their side.
This is what fascists, dictators and authoritarians have done throughout history. They silence you because they are A____HOLES.
It’s IRONIC that Iceland is trying to silence an Islam critic. These BRAINDEAD LIBTARDS cannot seem to remember their own history.
When Muslims enslaved one million Europeans from the 16th to 19th centuries, the Muslims invaded and took slaves from multiple countries, including Iceland. Now, these braindead Icelanders are aiding and abetting those who want to enslave them by trying to kill Robert Spencer.
Icelanders are STUNNINGLY STUPID
Billy Chickens says
We were recently in South America where twice I overheard conversations by Leftists. Both conversations indicated that the Leftists were worried. First group was worried about “what to do about the situation in the US (Trump)” and how to “GET RID OF IT”; second group was worried about “overpopulation” and “HOW TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM”. The obvious answer to their worries was to kill us all. Wipe us off the face of the earth. Of course!
tim gallagher says
Thank God you did pull through this appalling treatment, Robert. You are doing some of the most important work in the world, in my opinion, in trying to wake up as many people as possible to the true nature of Islam. The left are extraordinarily intolerant of any people who don’t share their own boneheaded view of life and, because they think they are the only ones with the correct and moral views, (such moronic views they are at that, such as their pandering to Islam) are vicious in their treatment of people who dissent from their views, as this treatment of you indicates. The violent intolerance that the Antifa mob show over and over again illustrate the fascist lefties’ viciousness. Long may you keep on doing the great work you do, Robert. What nasty weasels these people in Iceland were.
gravenimage says
+1
Infidel says
This is a country that encourages the abortion of babies diagnosed in advance w/ Downs Syndrome. Nothing that they allowed to happen to RS should surprise anyone.
Only good thing about that country is that they are easy to isolate
Billy Chickens says
And since they are easy to isolate it’s the perfect place on the planet for Islam.
Alice W. says
This is all true. Iceland considers itself superior and progressive by abolishing Down’s syndrome from their midst. The look at them as not human so they think they can kill them off. I think they probably look at people who do not share their views as not human so they can kill them.
Mr. Spencer, thank you for telling us about this. Thank you for your courage and know that you are a giant defender of Western Civilization which promotes life. Leftists are a cult of death!
I thank God for creating you and protecting you under His wings….
Rob. says
I hope Mr. Spencer can pursue a civil case against the perpetrators, conspirators, and accessories to the crimes if a criminal case is no longer possible. Lawyer up and shut them down!
Donovan Nuera says
Iceland is situated over only 3 miles of crust…whereas the average thickness of crust in the continental US is about 70 miles. They have a volcanic eruption on average every 2 years and they have dozens of volcanoes. The last big ones of Eyafjallajokull and Kitma were devastating to the southern coastal areas with glacial melt-off floods that ran for 6 straight days and blanketed 3′ of bad ash a few days later smothering their fertile farmlands. The atomized obsidian ash cloud brought air travel to Europe and North Africa to a halt for a month due to risk of clogging jet engines with remelted glass.
They also have the highest STD rate in Western Europe.
Their price of living is gouging their youth out of financial security.
Fish tacos using cod just doesn’t taste as good as dorado tacos.
Their young women are hit on by obnoxious New Yorker tourists 24/7…causing them to be less friendly…….and/or more likely to have STDs from NYC.
The Blue Lagoon is not that warm….and you have to group shower with strangers before AND after you go for your $75 dip (not including 40 minute taxi ride from Reykjavik).
Their Allthing Parliament building is smaller than our science building at my old small US high school.
They still eat Hakarl!
DAvid says
Well pointed out, almost like “The prisoner” one road that goes no where.
gravenimage says
the idea that what happened to Robert Spencer is the fault of tourists from New York is pretty questionable…
Lydia Church says
Thank God Robert is still okay and behind his keyboard!
Yes, he is much needed.
I’m sure God was protecting him!
DAvid says
Wow I was suffering under the impression Iceland was some sort of “free” place since they had kicked out the bankers, but it seems pro Jihad thinking is permeating the upper levels of Icelandic society. I sense the integrity of the police in this case, so maybe there is still hope. God’s speed Robert, many people praying for you.
gravenimage says
There are banks and bankers in Iceland. They were not the problem here.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
[1] What is the source of the photographs at the top of this article? And why are the eye pupils whited out?
[2] In this context, what exactly is a siphon? Just a length of flexible tube? Of what size? Does any siphoning take place from a high liquid-containing vessel to a lower liquid-receiving vessel?
Robert Spencer says
Those are images from the surveillance cameras. The eyes turned out that way as they often do in low quality surveillance video.
A siphon is like a straw. I wasn’t given images of it, however.
gravenimage says
Thank you, Mr. Spencer. That is what I assumed.
Carl -stealth Infidel- says
Robert Spencer, between ten to twenty years from now, the MSM will humbly admit to the freedom fighting work that your fans and students, as I do, honor you for today. And a 100 years from now Pidgins will be your only problem ?
gravenimage says
I hope so, Carl–but I doubt it. Likely the best we can hope for is to prevail–then the MSM will be on to other things.
This is what early warners about the threat of Fascism had to accept. I’m good with that.
OREN WYSOCKI says
I am sorry that this has happened to you. I hope you completely recover from what has been done to you, and I hope that those who harmed you should experience justice. In G-d I trust.
observer says
Ditto Oren !
Quazgaa says
Memo to self, avoid Iceland.
Heidi says
I am shocked and appalled to read was has happened to you in Iceland but I am not surprised. Remember the tims of the RAF in Germany who eliminated people in their way to establish their dream of a leftist dictatorship. We are at this Point again and if one doesn’t agree with their political view he will be attacked either verbally or physically. The big hype about the climate change will ensure that the main problem, which is the influx of a unwelcome and very dangerous species into our societies plays no role in the Attention of the ordinary citizen. In order to establish a leftist dictatorship, not only for Germany but all of the EU, they just established a climate calamity law giving them uninhibited rights to change or establish laws against the citizens of Europe. Last we had a calamity law which helped Hitler to gain power. History will repeat itself until you learn. Apparently they haven’t learned anything. I wish you well and hope you never will have an experience like this again. God bless you.
Tony Vullo says
Well said. +1
Elsa Is Elsa says
Thank you, Robert, for documenting so clearly and fully what happened.
Paul Freeman says
Appalling story in every way. Thank God you recovered, but what a dreadful experience you had made worse by the very medical professional you put your trust in. The whole thing undermines one’s faith in humanity.
SamB says
It is not nice painting people with a broad brush, after all an Icelander invited you. But, the clandestine activities you describe is riveting. The supporting staff concealing the crime moreover is also engaging. If it is was not for your profile I would dismiss it as a criminal activity, however, there is more here that meets the eye. Why would liberal people cause harm to a person whose life’s work is to expose a pernicious religion? If I am correct liberals\Satanist\atheist are cahoots with subverters of the truth. The fact is that millions\billions are flooding into the dar-al harb so that the masses can abnegate its conscious. Thus, Sindri Geirsson, Sigurour Olasson, Sigurour Hreios Elisson , Bar Anasass and Hjilti Mar Bjornsson have hauled the reputation of Icelanders\liberals\islam further into the mud. Agents are [now] being paid to get their own in the West. All of us are not safe…
gravenimage says
+1
Vita says
Stay alive Robert. We need you-badly.
mortimer says
Iceland will have the reputation of a HAVEN FOR PSYCHOPATHS.
If justice is not done in Iceland in the terrorist poisoning of Robert Spencer, they will suffer a world-wide backlash. No one will consider Iceland to be a safe place to visit.
ICELAND = INBRED PSYCHOPATHS !
Forrest Misby says
Other than Poland and the Czech Republic,Europe is in the hands of leftist monsters or jihadis.
Iceland isnt anything special….they are rotten also?
Paddy O'Connor says
Let’s all make a solemn pledge to boycott Iceland and all things Icelandic.
Infidel says
Unlike, say China, that’s not a country that’s at all hard to boycott. I don’t recall seeing a single thing ever w/ the glorious label ‘Made in Iceland’
observer says
I pledge to NEVER VISIT ICELAND !
Truesight says
Religion of peace. I’m sold.
observer says
religion of peace.
Just to brag a tad Truesight: I was sold before you were ??
On a more serious note:
HERE’S TO ROBERT SPENCER over whom I lost a friend yesterday.
I told him he was “…way off beam” where you were concerned Robert – so you can pretty well understand the sort of things he was saying.
I’m sad but it’s a sacrifice I’m happy to make for you.
But want to add he has been a very good friends over many years.
Thank you for the risks ongoing risks you take to get the truth out there Robert.
observer says
Sorry, meant to say: “…he has been a very good +friend+ over many years.”
Ed says
In 2008-9, Iceland went bankrupt. Read: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%932011_Icelandic_financial_crisis
With particular emphasis on:
“One sign of the success of the above efforts is the fact that the Icelandic government was successfully able to raise $1 billion with a bond issue on 9 June 2011. This development indicates that international investors have given the government and the new banking system, with two of the three biggest banks now in foreign hands, a clean bill of health.
The article doesn’t say whose foreign hands Iceland has been placed into, but suspect funding through Petro Dollars. Follow the money to see where Iceland’s interests now lie.
Good to see you pull through, Robert. Hard to kill a good man. Feel lucky the buggers didn’t slip you any Rohypnol.
Clayton Lee says
That’s one more country I’m not going to visit!
Dr. Doom says
Dr. Spencer I am very glad you survived this atrocity. For the rest of us, some advice may be in order. Do not visit Iceland.
mortimer says
Robert Spencer should receive an honorary PhD in recognition for his valuable scholarly work.
David Darman says
Robert, like all of your readers, I regret this happeed to you, but I’m curious how do we know all the culprits were “leftists?” Was the MD that apparently committed medical malpractice also a leftist?
Vann says
It is a good thing that everyone now has a good idea of what happened. Thank you Robert Spencer!
I can imagine that it could happen that a hospital in the US might have afforded Spencer poor treatment like this. I can imagine that the legal system could have failed him here, at least initially, as it failed him there. I cannot imagine that the hospital and the legal system in the US could have ended with the horrible medical treatment and the sham of a trial as happened here.
Spencer is a giant to me. I know because of the time he left here that this site can go on without him and he should be proud of that. Perhaps not a single story was missed due to his absence. But it was different.
Among the seldom times that I on minor or tertiary issues disagree with Spencer in his reporting on an issue, or his method, there are times that it is simple disagreement. Other times, it is more important than the disagreement itself. It would not matter as much or at all if I had the same sort of disagreement with anyone else associated with this movement.
It is because of this feeling that I will probably always hold Iceland’s failures against them. I see Spencer’s work every day. I believe it is natural that I should appreciate the person behind the work.
Heidi says
Maybe here are some good news in all the terrible things happening to Dr. Spencer. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/03/kamala-harris-drops-out-of-2020-presidential-race.html
David Darman says
Robert, like all of your readers, I regret this happened to you and trust you have recovered fully, but I’m curious how do we know all the culprits were “leftists?” Was the MD that apparently committed medical malpractice also a leftist?
Robert Spencer says
As for the doctor, read his Facebook page. As for the poisoners, they’re standard millennial lemmings.
Ashley says
Why wasn’t the fourth suspect, the taxi driver, identified by name? He clearly must have informed the other goons that you were on route to Bar Ananas.
Write a memoir about this hideous incident, Robert. It needs to be widely exposed.
Just relieved you have recovered, but like others, I have to wonder if the recent health crisis you endured could be attributed to this poisoning.
Stay strong and healthy, my friend.
Yohanan says
Shame on the Iceland hospital (doctor) for malpractice and on the prosecutors for dropping this politically motivated criminal case.
What was the specific toxic substance(s) used in the deliberate poisoning of Robert Spencer? The Reykjavik police report reportedly assumed it to be a “combination of amphetamine and MDMA into his drink.” Information as to specific agents may also be medically relevant as some toxins may have long term residual effects and as there is medical research into scavengers that may counter specific toxins.
Be well, Mr. Spencer. Your counter-jihad work is greatly needed.
David Darman says
Here a leftist, there a leftist, everywhere a leftist. Some who might be considered leftists also oppose the Islamic ideology.
Steve says
I was going to visit Iceland in 2020 but this has changed my mind. I will never visit Iceland.
michele says
Thank God you survived it and thank you for all you do! God bless you, Robert.
Trick_or_Treat says
SHITE, Robert, that is a horrible thing to have had happen – and admittedly, here I was living in ignorance that Iceland was just a glorified camp up in the snow somewhere up around a couple of volcanos in the Arctic. I didn’t think it would have had any more significance on the the face of the planet than our Island State of Tasmania – I’m astounded to learn it’s even got an international standard airport runway, let alone a hospital with ED facilities! So bloody far from the godforsaken muslim sand pits of the Middle East.
What I’d like to know is, just WHO was really behind that ‘operation’ against you? Did the Iceland police (gee, they’ve even got a police station!) question these people as to just WHO it was that commissioned them and put them up to this? Did they look into any sudden unexplainable increases of the assets or aquisitions of any of these suspects? Let’s face it, the suspects themselves are a bunch of dickheads (a bunch of ‘useful idiots’), and if they had more than half a brain to cobble together between them, then I’m quite certain you would be dead now.
Unfortunately, somebody like you should practice and maintain a strict level of personal security, this includes using a bogus name wherever you can, don’t book a dinner table (or seat) in your real name, get your own drinks from the bar (and keep a good watch on them being poured, pulled or mixed), keep a close eye on your drinks – never leave them unattended for a moment. Keep a very close eye and discernment on what (and WHO) is going on right around you at all times, etc, etc. …
God bless.
Doug says
I have not been as plugged into Robert’s writings of late, and I am shocked to find out about this. I had heard the Icelanders seemed to be doing it to themselves by importing Middle Eastern and sub Saharan men there, but the mere thought that Icelandic named home grown people are going to do the bidding of the world’s best known rat bastards is keenly disappointing to me. Too bad, I wanted to go back and visit, but if I am going to be looked up online and marked if I say something politically incorrect, I am not going. Of course I realize I am a low value ideological target but this is insidious.
Debee says
I am so sorry to hear that these Muslim men tried to kill you! It’s sad & horrific. I can guarantee you this is nothing compared to what we will all have to face in the coming years. They want to kill us all! Just watch the Libtards in America . It’s sad to know that 1 day we will have to go to war with one another because we believe in Jesus Christ. The Muslims are already trying to pass Sharia Law in my own state of Texas. The Democrats in office are just as evil as Islamic freaks! # They are angry because they’re being exposed for what they truly are! Haters of ppl who don’t agree with them. They are not much different than the Islamic Jihadists. They would like nothing more than to kill everyone of us here in the US if we don’t agree with them. GOD BLESS YOU ROBERT! I will pray for you & that no weapon formed against you will nvr come to prosper. Keep up THE TRUTH !
Alice Hoagland says
Dear Mr. Spencer,
I’m certain I am not the only one of your followers who is horrified and outraged at the sketchy support you were given in the aftermath of the ugly criminal acts against you by the likes of Sindri Geirsson and Sigurour Olason. Those two are a pitiable disgrace to the nation of Iceland.
Why didn’t the case proceed to trial? Why wasn’t the poisoner’s bar Prikio Kaffihus (and possibly the Bar Ananas where the crime was committed) shut down? Why was Hjalti Mar Bjornsson allowed to continue his medical practice after committing gross medical malpractice upon you?
Those benighted men put their humanity aside in order to injure a fellow human who boldly speaks truth, even in face of their ugly, cowardly leftist criminality.