(Yle) A Spanish national in his early 20s who lives in Finland was handed a four-month suspended sentence by Helsinki District Court after being found guilty of training to commit a terrorist crime.
The court found that the man, who was placed in custody in December, had been acquiring information about the activities of extremist Islamic groups over the course of several years.
Those terrorist groups included the Islamic State, Al-Shabaab and Boko Haram. The court found he sourced the terrorist organisations’ materials from others on the social media platform Telegram.
He also used an assault rifle-type airsoft gun that shoots plastic projectiles, which resembled a military-style weapon.
