Singer Musta Barbaari’s mother and sister are going to be charged for resistance to cooperate with law enforcement officials and insubordination, according to YLE. In a highly publicized case in social media last year, Musta Barbaari, whose real name is James Nikander, wrote that his mother and sister were stopped by plainclothes police officials in downtown Helsinki who asked them to show their passport.
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Finland’s blind spot of racism will persist for as long as we play dead and tango with it
National Coalition Party (NCP) Interior Minister Paula Risikko is a pretty questionable politician. She is deplorable for a number of reasons: spreads suspicion of asylum seekers and migrants and doesn’t care to distinguish what is a far-right anti-immigration group like Suomi Ensin (Finland First).
Ana María Gutiérrez Soranen: La vida en Europa es, a veces, como un sacrificio
Ana María Gutiérrez Soranen El fin de semana pasado salió a la luz pública el triste caso de dos mujeres que en una calle de Helsinki, fueron seguidas por dos policías vestidos de civil y que les demandaron presentar sus pasaportes. Estas mujeres eran la madre y hermana de un conocido músico finlandés, “Musta Barbaari”,…
Perussuomalaiset MP Leena Meri: Hiding coded bigotted statements as jokes
One matter is what happened on Friday to singer Musta Barbaari’s mother and sister when they were stopped by plainclothes police Friday, the other is a bigotted comment by an anti-immigration politician and former police officer concerning the alleged ethnic profiling case. The MP, who is a member of the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* party, Leena Meri, said that if the singer doesn’t like living in Finland he’s welcome to go back to where he came from.