Jyväskylä City Councillor
Teemu Torssonen has been charged with assault, a firearms offence and making an illegal threat. The case will be heard by Jyväskylä District Court on 19 May.
The charges of assault and making an illegal threat are related to an incident in the city on 24 May last year, which the prosecutor alleges began when a man made a comment to Torssonen s spouse. The man had allegedly said that the councillor had put up posters around Jyväskylä harbour.
The man alleges that Torssonen then confronted him over the comments later in the day at a separate location. According to both him and a witness at the scene, Torssonen struck the man in the head with a stone that he had taken from his pocket. The victim of the alleged assault said he tried to defend himself from this attack by using his legs to push himself away from Torssonen.
updated 23.2.2021 16:40
The attack occurred at Finns Party aide Pekka Kataja s home in July 2020.
Attackers used this fake package to persuade Pekka Kataja to let them in to his house.
Image: Poliisin esitutkintapöytäkirja
A man went on trial on Tuesday accused of attempting to murder an official in the Finns Party in what the prosecution says was a politically-motivated attack.
Prosecutors added that a similar attack has not occurred in Finland since the 1930s. At that time the far-right Lapua Movement committed several acts of political violence.
The defendant, a man born in 1979 who is resident in Tuusula, denies all charges in the case, which is tried this week at the district court in Jyväskylä.