Crime

Four Members of Parliament have drawn up a bill proposing that fines for littering be doubled, as a deterrent measure. National Coalition Party MPs Saara-Sofia Sirén, Markku Eestilä, Sari Multala and Pauli Kiuru want to see the fines increased from €100…

Finland’s Supreme Court has upheld the decisions of two lower courts, and ordered the Nordic Resistance Movement banned. The group had appealed those rulings to the Supreme Court, but in its ruling the court rejected the appeal and said the…

A local councilor in Helsinki says he’ll file a report to the police after a Finns Party politician in Central Ostrobothnia posted an inflammatory video on social media. Veteli councilor Jarno Vähäkainu posted a short video clip of two pigs, with…

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has ruled against Finland in the case of a 2008 mass shooting incident, saying that authorities failed to take action against the killer. The court has ordered the Finnish state to…

The entire Jyväskylä City Board has resigned after one of its members was detained by police on suspicion of attempted murder of a City Council member. The move is procedural, as a way to force Teemu Torssonen (Ind) off the…

Two suspects, both with links to the far-right, and one with ties to the Finns Party, have been detained by police investigating the attempted murder of a Finns Party activist in July. The National Bureau of Investigation NBI says the…

The Finnish Immigration Authority Migri says it’s investigating an apparent ‘appointments for cash’ scam where someone booked dozens of appointment times, then tried to sell them to people with a longer wait in the queue. The head of Migri’s permit…

The trial begins in Helsinki on Wednesday of five men accused of raiding a warehouse in Espoo to liberate a huge haul of cocaine. The incident happened in December last year with attackers threatening warehouse workers with replica guns, and…

Two brothers from Sweden have denied charges of attempted murder in the shooting of police officers in Porvoo last year. Their trial began in District Court on Tuesday morning with Raymond Granholm, born in 1994, and his brother Richard Granholm,…

The number of serious violent crimes in the Finnish capital has surged during the spring and summer. According to Inspector Jari Koski from the Violent Crimes Unit of Helsinki Police while the number of common assaults has been declining "the…