Police prepare Kankaanpää neo-Nazi case for prosecutors, trial likely next month – #terror

The case marks the first time charges have ever been filed against a far-right group in Finland, investigating officers said. A lengthy police investigation into the suspected terrorist activities of a neo-Nazi gang from the town of Kankaanpää in Finland’s southwest is nearing completion, and will be passed to prosecutors for consideration “within a few weeks”. The case first came to the attention of the public in December 2021, when the five suspects — all men aged between 23 and 26 — were remanded in custody on suspicion of making preparations for a terrorist attack. Police said at the time they believed the group were influenced by accelerationist ideas — meaning they wanted to create chaos in society in order to hasten the collapse of contemporary civilisation — and the case marks the first time charges have ever been filed against a far-right group in Finland. (…) During the course of the preliminary investigation, police confiscated several weapons from the terror cell, including an assault rifle and sawn-off shotguns, as well as dynamite and fertiliser containing the explosive ammonium nitrate.

via yle: Police prepare Kankaanpää neo-Nazi case for prosecutors, trial likely next month

siehe auch: Yle investigation: Kankaanpää neo-Nazi gang had history of intimidation, harassment, assaults Five members of the far-right group were arrested by police in early December on suspicion of terrorist offences. One suspect has since been released from pre-trial detention. A group of young men clad in bomber jackets and combat boots have been a familiar sight around the town of Kankaanpää in southwest Finland for many years. The gang have also been known to openly display racist insignia, such as t-shirts with the text “White Pride”. Earlier this month, Satakunta District Court remanded five men, all aged between 23 and 26 years old and believed to be members of the group, on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack

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