We are a small group called the Media Monitoring Group of Finland, represented by people from different minority backgrounds. Today we published our first report in English and Finnish. Has media coverage of “youth gangs” and the security guards scandal been fair? In our opinion, coverage has been problematic. Please read the report and see
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Migrant Tales Media Monitoring: Why are shoplifting Romany women news?
Tabloid Ilta-Sanomat, which has had a murky history for publishing and attacking Somalis and other migrants in the 1990s, publishes a story about two Romany women who shoplift 2,600 euros of merchandise. Certainly, shoplifting is a crime, but what about when a tabloid publishes a story that reinforces stereotypes about a certain group? Considering that Ilta-Sanomat was
Read on »Oops! Incorrect suspected sexual assault cases for 2020
Sexual assault, especially suspected cases, is heatedly used by anti-immigration parties like the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* and public services like the police to demonstrate how some foreigners are. The police admitted today to a mistake in tabulating suspected sexual assault cases during 2020. The mistake originates from a foreigner suspected of sexually assaulting his wife 141
Read on »What happened and led to the death of a Somali Finn? Where do we go from here?
How would we tell the events that led to the death of an eighteen-year-old Somali Finn youth last Sunday at the Kannelmäki railway station? According to one account, supposedly the victim’s witness that experienced the whole horrific event, which has shocked many, especially Somalis and other black people. According to one account, the victim and
Read on »Facebook Sarkawt Khalil: A pizzeria owner’s car gets vandalized in Espoo
This Facebook post was published with permission. See original posting here.
Read on »Dr Abdul Mannan: Muslims want to live in harmony with the rest of Finnish society
Dr. Abdul Mannan, the imam and the president of the Oulu-based Islamic Society of Northern Finland, is adamant about one matter: Those who are guilty of sexual assault should pay for their crimes. He said that the suspects, which number 16 men, have also brought shame to their community.
Read on »Facebook Abdirahim Husu Hussein: Migrants are individuals and you can’t paint them with a single brush
Migrant Tales insight: Everyone that lives in Finland deserves to live in a safe environment. Read the original posting here.
Read on »Two Police statements, two different views on the racialization of crime
What happens when a crime happens? Which groups get singled out and what is the age limit for labelling them?
Read on »A letter to Finland about hate crime*
Dear Finland,
Our family suffered a terrible crime on February 23 in Vantaa when three youths approached my husband from Pakistan at night and asked for a cigarette. My husband is a good and loving person. If you ask him for a cigarette, he’ll give you two. But there was a problem: The three youths that asked for cigarettes looked like minors.
Read on »Finnish police service claims that sexual harassment is new in Finland’s sexual crime history
Finnish deputy chief of police of Helsinki, Ilkka Koskimäki, is the latest representative of the police service whose statements have left people scratching their heads. He’s quoted as saying in the Daily Telegraph: “This phenomenon [sexual harassment] is new in Finnish sexual crime history. We have never before had this kind of sexual harassment happening at
Read on »Was PS MP James Hirvisaari bullied at school and in the army?
The most recent scandal to rock the Perussuomalaiset (PS) party is another sad chapter in the history of the right-wing populist party and for the same reason: racism. The culprits are now MP James Hirvisaari and Kai Haavisto, member of the party’s Uusimaa regional board. What’s wrong with these people? How can anyone who can
Read on »Anti-immigration sound-bite: Rape! Rape! RAPE!
I was surprised to read a blog post on Uusi Suomi by Kai Haavisto, a Perussuomalaiset (PS) politician from Espoo, who suggested that those groups that are prone to commit rape should be castrated chemically before being allowed to live in Finland. Haavisto is well-known for his racist views. One of his blog entries in
Read on »Crime statistics are used shamelessly by certain groups in Finland to label immigrants
Hannu Niemi, a Justice Ministry researcher, says that crime rates by immigrants in Finland have been exaggerated by the media, report Länsi Uusimaa and Uusi Suomi. He believes that there is a political aim by some groups to cite national origin in crime statistics in order to label whole groups. Migrant Tales spoke with Niemi in the spring, when
Read on »Abdisalam Mohamed Abdulah: Returning to Finland’s Black February
Remember Dark February? In about three weeks we read about the deaths of three Muslims , a suicide and a Perussuomalaiset (PS) councilman who offered to decorate a white Finn for killing in cold blood one of these victims? Migrant Tales had the opportunity to meet Monday the father and a family friend of one of the victims, Abdisalam Mohamed Abdulahi.
Read on »Finland’s police service: see no, hear no, speak no hate crimes
Migrant Tales reported since the end of January some gruesome violent crimes against Muslims in Finland with the most recent one happening Wednesday. Two of these led directly to the violent death of a Somali and Moroccan native, both Finnish citizens. None of these were hate crimes, according to the police.
Read on »Update: Older woman assaulted at Myllypuro metro station in Helsinki
Thanks to a tip off, Migrant Tales correctly reported that the older woman that was attacked and beaten Wednesday at Helsinki’s Myllypuro metro station was allegedly by a group of white Finns. The older woman suffered injuries to the face and was taken to hospital by ambulance.
Read on »Is Aamulehti’s claim of high rape convictions by foreigners in Finland correct?
Thirty-four percent of convicted rape crimes committed during 2006-09 in Finland were by foreigners, according to Tampere-based Aamulehti. What is surprising, however, is that Aamulehti chose not to mention 2009 and 2010 suspected rape crimes, which totaled 141 (27.5% of all rape cases) and 109 (26%) in 2010 and 2011, respectively, according to Hannu Niemi of the Justice Ministry.
Read on »Police unlikely to pin hate crime on the death of a Somali in Oulu, Finland
The police announced Wednesday that the eighteen-year-old Somali national who died in hospital Tuesday slipped from the sixth floor while trying to escape after three people had barged into his home, according to tabloid Iltalehti. Migrant Tales spoke with Seppo Leinonen of the Oulu police, who said it was unlikely that the death was the result of a hate crime.
Read on »Iltalehti: Ulkomaalainen mies ryöstettiin Vaasassa
Uhri kaadettiin maahan, ja häntä lyötiin ja potkittiin. Afrikkalaissyntyinen 40-vuotias mies ryöstettiin Ristinummella Vaasassa lauantaina klo 15 jälkeen. Miehen luokse oli tullut 5-6 suomalaista noin 20-25-vuotiasta miestä ja ryhtynyt nimittelemään tätä muun muassa neekeriksi. Nimittelyn
Read on »Etelä-Suomen Sanomat: Ulkomaalaisten rikokset kuohuttavat
Comment: Here is an interesting story about crime and immigrants. Human rights activist and lawyer, Hussein Muhammed, gives his take on the problem. One of the big issues whenever an immigrant commits a crime is that the whole groups is labelled. One way of lowering crime would be a more effective family reunification policy, which
Read on »Kauhajoki, Finland, killer — the darker side of a man
The fatal shooting of 10 classmates by Matti J. Saari, 22, in Kauhajoki in western Finland came as a shock. It was only in November that another young Finnish man went on the rampage in Jokela and killed and injured a number of his classmates. Certainly a lot of questions clamor for an answer: Why?
Read on »Finland also locks up asylum seeker children
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- A child in the Joutseno Immigration Removal Center.
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