Iceland sends alt-right leader Spencer packing
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1 min readJul 11, 2018
When Richard Spencer, one of the leaders of the US far-right white supremacist movement, landed in Keflavik en route to Sweden, the local police sent him right back to the US, the Grapevine reports.
“This is a rather ordinary registration in the Schengen Area system,” Sigurgeir said. “He was at one point kicked out of Poland and banned from returning there, and this registration applies to the entire Schengen area. It’s just a natural part of the Schengen Agreement that if you’re deported from one [Schengen] country, that applies to all of them. So when he landed here and intended to travel on to Europe, it didn’t work.”
