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Police to Investigate Helsinki City Council Member's Blog

Police are launching a preliminary investigation into the blog of Jussi Halla-aho, a True Finns party member who was elected to Helsinki’s local government this autumn.

Jussi Halla-aho
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Halla-aho is suspected of incitement against an ethnic group. Police are also considering whether they should review his gun licence.

The Green Women’s Association filed a complaint against Halla-aho in November. In his blog, Halla-aho had written on immigration that, “Since rapes will increase in any case, the appropriate people should be raped: in other words, green-leftist do-gooders and their supporters.”

The matter was first reported by the tabloid Ita-Sanomat online.

Sources: Ilta-Sanomat, YLE