HELSINKI, 03 DEC – Five men were arrested in Helsinki, accused of terrorism, for planning an attack believed to be linked to far-right circles. The five men, all around the age of 25, were placed in pre-trial detention on terrorism charges, police said. “The subjects, according to preliminary investigations, show accelerationist tendencies of the far right”, said in a press conference the expert of the Supo security services, Eero Pietila, adding that it is the first suspected case of far-right terrorism in Finland. . Accelerationism is a white supremacist ideology that has been linked to mass shootings in the United States, in which followers aim to sow division and interracial tension in society. (HANDLE).
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