The trial was Finland’s first terror court case in which neo-Nazi convictions were a factor. Eastern Finland Appeals Court has upheld the verdict in Finland’s first terror trial aimed at far-right defendants. Two men had appealed the verdicts in the case, but the appeals court found there were no grounds to change the lower court’s verdicts. The Päijät-Häme district court convicted a man born in 1996 of firearms offences with terrorist intent, training to commit acts of terror and five other offences. He was sentenced to a year and nine months in jail. He asked the appeals court to reduce the sentence and make it a suspended term, because he felt his actions had produced little concrete harm to outsiders. The district court sentenced a man born in 1957 to one year and two months in jail for two firearms offences. He was not convicted on terror charges. The appeals court found, however, that he was aware of the younger man’s ideological viewpoint and motivation and approved of them. According to the ruling, the 65-year-old man was referred to in messaging as the ‘rebel general’. He encouraged the much younger men to prepare for a “race war” and commit more violent attacks, regardless of the death toll, to gain more attention.
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