According to the authorities, these five young men belong to the “accelerationist” movement, which hopes to unleash the chaos of the interethnic conflict.
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The net hit in Finland. Five young men were arrested and detained in Finland for having projected a “ultra-right attack” by bomb and firearms, unheard of in the Nordic country, the authorities announced on Friday (December 3rd). These are the first arrests for a far-right terrorist attack in Finland, according to police.
The suspects were arrested on Tuesday and live in Kankaanpää, a small town of 13,000 inhabitants in the southwest of the country. They were presented to a judge on Friday and remanded in custody. The possible target (s) have not been disclosed, nor the details of a possible modus operandi. The five men had been under surveillance since a first arrest two years ago, police said at a press conference.
Searches carried out in December 2019 uncovered “a significant amount of firearms, ammunition and explosives”, explained Commissioner Toni Sjöblom. They display “accelerationist ultra-right tendencies”, explained Supo representative Eero Pietilä.
According to ultra-right experts, the “accelerationists” hope to stir up the chaos of the inter-ethnic conflict to spark a major uprising among ethnic Westerners. Small groups have been identified in several countries, but the movement is recent.