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Finns Party politician sentenced for agitation against African immigrants

Xinhua, January 14, 2017 Adjust font size:

A court here sentenced a former deputy councilor on Friday to pay a fine for agitation against an ethnic group, Finnish daily Iltalehti reported.

Olli Sademies, a 67-year-old member of the Finns Party, wrote on his Facebook profile in May 2015 that the number of children among immigrants should be reduced.

He suggested that African men be sterilized, as African immigrants have too many children.

The court considered that the offender's defamatory, abusive, and threatening online posts were likely to arouse people's contempt, and ordered him to pay a fine totaling 1,900 euros (2,022 U.S. dollars).

As a result of the racist messages he posted, Sademies was expelled by the Finns Party in September 2015, and forced to leave the Finns Party group of the Helsinki City Council in January 2016.

There are several similar judicial processes underway involving members of the nationalist Finns Party. A Member of Parliament was fined last week, and the chair of the youth league is awaiting a court decision next week. Endit