Handcuffed outside the Ministerial residence this morning
The carpenter is here seen sitting on the man who tried to steal his electric scooter. The drivers for the ministers are ready to be of help. Photo/Guðmundur Hilmarsson
A young man was handcuffed outside the Ministerial residence in Tjarnargata in Reykjavik, Iceland, this morning during a government meeting.
While a journalist from mbl.is waited for the government meeting to end, there was a surprise on the street outside the Ministerial residence. A young man, apparently under the influence, was planning to steal an electric scooter, which was owned by a carpenter who was working in the garden of the building next to the Ministerial residence.
The man was handcuffed by the drivers for the ministers who were at the scene and got a different job this morning they probably had not anticipated. Photo/Guðmundur Hilmarsson
The carpenter quickly responded and managed to turn the man down and with the help of three drivers working for the ministerial team, they were able to move the man into handcuffs and the young man was then removed by police when they came to the scene.
This episode did not interfere with the government meeting, which was chaired by Bjarni Benediktsson, Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs, in the absence of Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdótttur, who was busy with other diplomatic duties.
