Below is an incident that happened at at the offices of insurance company OP-Pohola-Group in Kangasniemi, a small town located between Mikkeli and Jyväskylä. The letter is a complaint to the company for refusing to offer service to a man because he did not speak Finnish or Swedish.
Month: February 2012
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.
Somali victim of Oulu, Finland: The tragedy that brings us closer to the problem
The reaction and threads concerning the tragic death of a Somali national in Oulu, Finland, Tuesday after three white Finnish suspects entered his home by force reveals the strong divide between “us” and “them.”We still have a long ways to go as a society to deal with social ills like discrimination. Paradoxically, tragedies like what happened in Oulu bring us ever-closer to the issue.