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    Posted December 30, 2009 by
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    Red flares lighted in Reykjavik today - protest - photos

    By ander  |  Posted December 30, 2009  |  reykjavik, Iceland
     

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    ander says about 200 people gathered in the cold outside Iceland's parliament building and lit flares at noon.

    - davidw, CNN iReport producer

    Icelands Parliement is about to put to a vote, the Icesave account, Shall Iceland pay it or not.
    It regards a account in England and Holland, by Icelandic bank .
    Many where today at parliement building at noon, protesting, and demanding that the Goverment should not pay, for the mistakes of private banks.
    And at 12:00 , the protesters lighted flares and shouted , at the parliement building.
    One man climbed up ,the statue of Jon Sigurdsson, a Icelandic Independence hero .

     

    And the temperature was minus 8 on the celcius

     

     

     

    You can get more info on this Icesave account - in english here.

     

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icesave_dispute

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