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WORLD NEWS Saturday 19 auguSt 2017

Finnish police shoot man who stabs 8 people in Turku; 2 dead

By JARI TANNER Finland’s top police chief,
Associated Press Seppo Kolehmainen, said
HELSINKI (AP) — A man it was too early to link the
stabbed eight people Fri- attack to international ter-
day in Finland’s western rorism.
city of Turku, killing two of “Nothing is known about
them, before police shot the motives ... or what pre-
him in the thigh and de- cisely has happened in
tained him, police said. Turku,” he said.
Authorities were looking for It was also not known if Fri-
more potential suspects in day’s attack was linked to
the attack. a decision in June by Fin-
A suspect — who police land’s security agency to
said was “a youngish man raise its threat assessment
with a foreign background” to the second level of a
— was being treated in the four-step scale. The Finn-
city’s main hospital but was ish Security Intelligence
in police custody. Secu- Service says the country’s
rity was being stepped up “stronger profile within the
across the Nordic country, radical Islamist propagan-
Interior Minister Paula Risik- da” led to the change. It
ko told reporters at a news said the Nordic country is
conference. now considered part of the
The man’s identity and na- coalition against the Islam-
tionality were being inves- ic State group. Armed Finnish policemen on guard at the Helsinki airport on Friday, Aug. 18, 2017, as Finnish
tigated. Police said he is The Ilta-Sanomat tabloid authorities announced they will raise readiness levels after an incident in Turku Finland. Police in
Finland say they have shot a man in the leg after he was suspected of stabbing several people
likely to have acted alone said six people were injured in the western city of Turku.
though it was not possible in the attack, one man (Lehtikuva via AP)
to completely rule out and five women, and that
that other people were in- a woman with stroller had ters (65 feet) away as the saying. attack as “a shocking and
volved. been attacked by a man attack took place. Finland’s government was cowardly act.”
Police did not give any in- with a large knife. Finnish “We heard a young wom- closely monitoring the po- “This attack touches us all
formation on the two peo- broadcaster YLE said sev- an screaming. We saw a lice investigation into the deeply,” said Niinisto, add-
ple killed or the conditions eral people were seen ly- man on the square and a attack, Prime Minister Juha ing that the country’s po-
of those wounded in down- ing on the ground in Puutori knife glittered. He was wav- Sipila said. litical leaders and security
town Turku, 170 kilometers Square after the attack. ing it in the air. I understood Finnish President Sauli Niinis- officials were doing their
(106 miles) west of Helsinki, Witness Laura Laine told that he had stabbed some- to arrived at Turku later Fri- utmost “so that all Finns are
the capital. YLE she was about 20 me- one,” Laine was quoted as day and condemned the able to feel safe.” q

In Germany, neo-Nazis get to march but threats are verboten

By FRANK JORDANS ing the death of Adolf Hit- Saturday’s march. sembly against the rights detain specific individuals
Associated Press ler’s deputy Rudolf Hess in Such restrictions are com- of counter-demonstrators rather than to stop an en-
BERLIN (AP) — Given Ger- the city’s western district of mon in Germany and root- and residents, he said. tire rally, said Richwin.
many’s grim history as the Spandau. ed in the experience of the “Anything intimidating is Left-wing groups expect
home of National Socialism But there’s a catch. pre-war Weimar Republic, ‘verboten,’” Richwin told about 1,000 people to at-
and the efforts it has made Police have told organiz- when opposing political The Associated Press on Fri- tend counter-protests Sat-
since then to atone for its ers they can march, but groups would try to forcibly day. urday in Spandau.
genocidal past, it might they’re not allowed to glo- interrupt their rivals’ rallies, The rules mean that shields, Hess, who received a life
seem surprising that far- rify Hess, who died at Span- resulting in frequent bloody helmets and batons carried sentence at the Nuremberg
right extremists who glorify dau prison 30 years ago. street violence, said Sven by far-right and Neo-Nazi trials for his role in planning
a dead Nazi official are al- The neo-Nazis are allowed Richwin, a Berlin lawyer. protesters in Charlottesville World War II, died on Aug.
lowed to march in his honor to bring banners: but only The exact rules differ ac- last weekend wouldn’t 17, 1987. Allied authorities
this weekend. one for every 50 partici- cording to the circum- be allowed in Germany. ruled his death a suicide,
Police in Berlin have given pants. stances, but police in Ger- Openly anti-Semitic chants but Nazi sympathizers have
far-right extremists permis- And military music is strictly many generally try to bal- would prompt German po- long claimed that he was
sion to hold a 500-person forbidden, unless a court ance protesters’ rights to lice to intervene, although killed and organize annual
strong rally commemorat- overturns that rule before free speech and free as- efforts would be made to marches in his honor.q