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So the Kancampir group first came to attention to the police in about 2020, but they'd actually been carrying out,

they'd been known locally and connected with assaults since at least 2014.

They're still on trial, so I'm not going to mention their names because Finnish media is quite specific about not naming criminal suspects just in case there's any risk of biasing the trial but they are easy to identify.

And in this group there were one two three four five people and they had a history going back to at least 2014 of basically going round and attacking local people and businesses that are associated with ethnic minorities in this town.

And Kankan Pie is about three hours drive north, northeast,West, sorry, of Helsinki.

So in 2014, they did an assault at a hot dog stand and threatened to slit someone's throat and beat someone up with an iron bar.

They, in between 2019 and 2021, there were a series of attacks, often targeting art students in the town, and also particularly singling out

anyone of a non-white background who was with the students.

So just, yeah, going up and violently beating people,

waiting for them outside restaurants and bars and things.

So that, I mean, so far this is all it's relatively typical in terms of you know a lot of fairly

backwater towns will have like a local skinhead group who are just menacing people and being malevolent.

But in January 2020, all five of them were detained by the police on firearms and explosives offenses and

they were suspected of trying to procure explosive devices and having been connected to the theft of some fertilizer.

So this puts it up a knot.

However, and this is what's confusing for me reading about this, is the police detained them and then let them go again and they immediately seem to have gone back to their activity. There was another attack, less around just over a year

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