(Yle) An Oulu court has slapped Finns Party lawmaker Sebastian Tynkkynen with a 50-day fine after convicting him on charges of ethnic agitation. The total fine amounts to slightly more than 4,000 euros.
The conviction came over texts and images Tynkkynen posted on Facebook back in 2016. According to the court, Tynkkynen’s writings about Islamic groups were premeditated, racist in nature and constituted defamatory hate speech that targetted Muslims and were likely to provoke contempt and even hatred based on intolerance of Islamic groups.
The court ruled that Tynkkynen must have understood that there was a clear connection between the images and texts he posted and that his audience would have understood him to mean that all Muslims are terrorists. The prosecutor originally called for the court to impose a 60-day fine on the defendant.
