Finland, Alt. media, Anarchist demonstration in Turku peaceful – one arrest - BEST FOR YOU

Finland, Alt. media, Anarchist demonstration in Turku peaceful – one arrest - BEST FOR YOU
    (en) Finland, Alt. media, Anarchist demonstration in Turku
    peaceful – one arrest

    An anarchist demonstration to oppose racism and fascism in the southwest city of Turku 
    resulted in one arrest on Saturday. Police estimate that some one hundred people took part 
    in the protest, which was otherwise peaceful. ---- The anarchists’ protest march circled 
    the shores of the Aura River in the city centre. ---- Police remanded one person in 
    connection with an anarchist demonstration in Turku Saturday evening. The drunken man 
    pestered restaurant customers along the protest march’s route and was therefore taken into 
    custody. ---- Otherwise, the one hundred-person-strong demonstration proceeded without 
    incident, moving along the streets of Turku peacefully. Director Timo Malinen of the 
    South-western Finland Police Department says local police had no prior information that 
    the anarchists were planning a demonstration, but met with the group at the market square 
    to agree on the route the group would take. The protest was arranged to express the 
    group’s opposition to racism and fascism.

    Malinen said the demonstration went surprisingly smoothly, seeing as how the police had 
    reserved several patrols at the ready. The mood in Turku Saturday was tense, as the 
    anti-immigrant Finns Party was holding its party congress in the city.

    Director Malinen says the police were on hand to make sure the meeting could be carried 
    out without incident, and several police were spotted near the Turku Logomo facilities 
    that acted as the venue for the Finns Party meeting.

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