Racist website contains list of politicians to be killed

Alert DateFebruary 17, 2010 Country: Finland General Type: Racist discourse Racism and discrimination phenomena: Extremism - organised Racist Violence, Anti-migrant/xenophobia
Groups affected / Interested in: Majority Key socio-economic/institutional areas: Internet, Political discourse -parties - orgs Hate speech/Racist Discourse Medium: Internet
Victims Data
Victims Nationality/Ethnic Origin N/A
Victims Gender N/A
Victims Age N/A
Victims Number N/A
Fatalities - deaths N/A
Perpetrators Data
Perpetrators Nationality/Ethnic Origin Finnish
Perpetrator Gender N/A
Perpetrator Age N/A
Perpetrators Number N/A
Extremist/Organised Group Violence Yes

On a racist Internet site, death threats have been posted against the President of the Republic Tarja Halonen and several other politicians, including Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen. In addition to the death threats, the website in Finnish includes racist statements and instructions for ethnic cleansing.

The site also includes a link to a YouTube video, which contains further threats. The National Bureau of Investigation (Finland’s Central Criminal Police arm) is looking into the website as incitement against sections of the population and as unlawful intimidation.
    
According to an Internet DNS search service it looks as though the website in question would have been registered by a leading figure of an American neo-Nazi organisation. According to the NBI, however, at least thus far there is no hard evidence of any international involvement with regard to the website.
    


Source:

Helsingin Sanomat - International Edition: Racist website contains list of politicians to be killed (2.3.2010) http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Racist+website+contains+list+of+politicians+to+be+killed/1135253375534