MORE, PLEASE: Soldiers of Odin, Finland: Vigilante group of men ‘protecting women’. “Protecting women” in scare quotes, check. Blatantly slanted opening line, “It is a country struck by fear and paranoia,” check.
The far-right group patrol the streets of Tampere, Finland, in a bid “to keep women safe”.
The group is expanding across Finland following a wave of sexual assaults, allegedly carried out by refugees and asylum seekers on New Year’s Eve.
“Far-right” label, check. Sexual assaults committed by “refugees” and “asylum seekers” only “allegedly” so, check. Also: “volunteer street patrols linked to Neo-Nazi groups have emerged” . . . And: “critics warn the rise of groups such as the Soldiers of Odin only fuel further hatred, fear and myths about the refugee crisis”
Uh-huh.
Related: Unprecedented sex harassment in Helsinki at New Year, Finnish police report.
Three Iraqi asylum seekers have been arrested for committing sexual assaults during the celebrations in the city’s Senate Square, where some 20,000 had gathered.
Security personnel reported “widespead sexual harrassment” during the celebrations, police added, with women complaining that asylum seekers had groped their breasts and kissed them without permission.
“This phenomenon is new in Finnish sexual crime history,” Ilkka Koskimaki, the deputy chief of police in Helsinki, told the Telegraph. ”We have never before had this kind of sexual harrassment happening at New Year’s Eve.” . . .
“Our information from these reception centres were that disturbances or other crimes would happen in the city centre. We were prepared for fights and sexual harrassment and thefts.”