Kursiivi printing house arson
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The Kursiivi printing house arson took place in the early morning of 26 November 1977, destroying the printing house Kursiivi in Helsinki in Lauttasaari. Kursiivi printed the newspaper of the Taistoist wing of the Communist Party of Finland Tiedonantaja, the Swedish language communist newspaper Arbetartidningen Enhet and Finnish People's Democratic League youth wing's Pioneeritoveri.[1]
A homemade bomb was also found in the printing house, which, however, had not had time to explode. In addition, the exterior walls of the building had been defaced with swastikas.[1] Police arrested a man suspected of setting fire on December 9. The left called on the state to take action against the far right because of the incident. The case and its litigation also attracted attention abroad.
Members of the Neo-Nazi Patriotic People's Front were convicted of arson, including Pekka Siitoin, known as a neo-Nazi and occultist, party secretary Seppo Lehtonen, Timo Pekkala and two people from Kotka.[2] In connection with the Kursiivi printing house arson lawsuit, Tiedonantaja magazine claimed that White Russian émigré Boris Popper had acted as a financier of Siitoin and acquired weapons and ammunition from the military's warehouses for the use of Siitoin's groups.[3]
References
- ^ a b Suomen uusnatsit: Kursiivin tuhopoltto (uutiskatsaus 2.12.1977) Yle elävä arkisto 20.9.2010
- ^ Pekka Siitoin oli uusfasismin kasvot Suomessa, Yle elävä arkisto 4.5.2015
- ^ Aleksi Mainio : Terroristien pesä. Suomi ja taistelu Venäjästä 1918–1939. Siltala 2015, luku "Pomminheittäjä saapuu Brysselistä", sivut 255-261
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