#Oulu District Court

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Finland’s Center for Legal Protection of Health Care also stated that Penttilä should be classified as an extreme danger to others, and the Appellate Court intervened and extended his prison term by one additional year.“ The original sentence was only 9 and a half years and that was the THIRD woman he strangled to death.

A Finnish serial killer who targeted young girls and women has been categorized as a “female” criminal by Wikipedia, prompting criticism on social media. Michael Maria Penttilä, 57, has been described by national media as the “only Finn to meet the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) definition of a serial killer,” having sexually abused and strangled multiple female victims to death, including children. Penttilä was born Jukka Torsten Lindholm, but is also known as Michael Pentholm.

Penttilä has a lengthy criminal record, which was recently highlighted in response to the revelation that he is classified as a “female” by Wikipedia. Many women expressed their outrage using the hashtag “notourcrimes,” which indicates opposition to male violence being recorded in statistics as having been committed by a woman.

Even as an adolescent, Penttilä committed sexually motivated and violent crimes. In 1981, at the age of 16, he abducted a teen girl, locked her in a basement, and beat her. Penttilä choked the girl with scarves and threatened to rape her, but she was able to flee. As punishment for the sadistic offense and a series of petty thefts, Penttilä was held at the Kerava Youth Facility in 1984 for one year.

Penttilä’s first known murder victim was of his own mother, Laina Lahja Orvokki Lindholm, whom he strangled on August 26, 1985, just after his release from the youth detention center. However, the crime was initially considered accidental by authorities, and the verdict in Penttilä’s case was ultimately decided to be wrongful death.

The next year, Penttilä met two 12 year-old girls and convinced them to accompany him to his apartment by promising to give them money to buy alcohol. He then locked one of the victims in the bathroom before using a belt to fatally strangle the other girl. Penttilä proceeded to rape the surviving girl, who was eventually able to escape after neighbors overheard her screams for help and contacted law enforcement.

It was only upon his arrest for the rape and murder of the young girls that the truth about Laina Lindholm’s death was revealed. During interrogations, Penttilä described to police how he had waited for his mother to fall asleep before donning her blue leather gloves and one of her scarves and choking her to death. He told authorities he killed his mother because she had begun dating another man since divorcing his father, and because he blamed her for not attempting to secure an early release for him from the youth facility.

In March of 1987, the Oulu District Court ruled that Penttilä was guilty of the murders of his mother and the child, and sentenced him to 9 years and seven months’ imprisonment. Despite this, the Rovaniemi Appellate Court intervened and held that Laina Lindholm’s death was not a murder, but instead a lesser crime of negligent homicide, and reduced his sentence to seven years.

Disturbingly, Penttilä confessed that he visited his mother’s grave after the killing.

Just one year after Penttilä was granted parole in May of 1992, he again choked a woman to death in his apartment in Kempele. The victim was a 42 year-old woman identified in press as Arja, and Penttilä admitted to causing her death, but claimed the murder was accidental and a result of engaging in the sadomasochistic sexual practice of erotic asphyxiation. 

Months later and while in prison, Penttilä told law enforcement his chilling motive behind the slaying. He said that he had confessed to having a “sexual abnormality” to Arja. Before her death, he told Arja that he was only capable of sadomasochistic sex, which included bondage, whipping and strangulation.

The Oulu District Court sentenced Penttilä to 9 and a half years, and a psychiatric evaluation was conducted. The examination concluded that Lindholm was sane and aware of his actions, and was therefore guilty. Finnish media reported that “[Penttilä’s] sexual inclination towards S/M sex and desire for strangulation did not show up in the examination because he focused on being as normal as possible.”

Finland’s Center for Legal Protection of Health Care also stated that Penttilä should be classified as an extreme danger to others, and the Appellate Court intervened and extended his prison term by one additional year.

In 2000, while incarcerated in Hämeenlinna Central Prison which houses both male and female inmates in separate wards, Penttilä began to wear make-up and dress in women’s clothes. According to psychiatric reports, Penttilä had a preoccupation with a hyper-masculine and violent male ideal, despite his fetishistic crossdressing tendencies. 

However, the prison’s director soon forbade him from wearing make-up and dresses, citing concerns about security. Penttilä then filed a formal complaint to Parliament’s ombudsman and attempted to argue that he was being discriminated against because female inmates were permitted to wear “men’s clothes.”

While in Hämeenlinna, Penttilä was granted permission to marry a woman named Hannele Pentholm, who was convicted of killing her husband and serving a life sentence. The two were married a short time, only two years, and after their divorce Penttilä adopted the name Michael Maria Penttilä and began claiming to be a lesbianwoman.

After he was released on parole in November 2008, Penttilä again attacked three more women on separate occasions. In May of 2009, he attempted to strangle a healthcare worker who he had called to his home to perform chiropractic services. The woman was eventually able to escape after calming Penttilä down and convincing him to release her.

He continued his violent pattern twice more: first strangling a female housecleaner he had hired to tidy his apartment, and the second just three weeks afterwards.

On June 11 of 2010, the Oulu District Court sentenced Penttilä to six years for three aggravated assaults and attempted aggravated assault, as well as aggravated rape and deprivation of liberty. The next year, the Rovaniemi Appellate Court once again interfered with the ruling and reduced Penttilä’s sentence to just four years and five months. The final verdict was upheld in October of 2012.

Penttilä was released in December of 2016, and just two years later, he murdered a prostituted woman by strangling her with stockings in his Helsinki apartment. Additionally, he had been found to have planned to murder a 17 year-old girl in 2017.

He is now serving a life sentence for the brutal slaying. 

During deliberations to determine whether Penttilä should be charged with homicide or the lesser crime of manslaughter, the court heard how he had spent hours of each day viewing pornography depicting asphyxiationleading up to the murders he had committed.

Psychologist Jan-Henry Stenberg told the Helsinki Court of Appeal that Penttilä’s pornography consumption illustrated the premeditated nature of his crime and highlighted the tendency for pornography use to escalate towards more extreme content. It was revealed that Penttilä had mimicked the actions of one of the men in a pornographic video he had watched.

Despite repeatedly targeting women and girls for sexually motivated violence, Penttilä is now listed as a “female serial killer” on Wikipedia, where editors have argued amongst themselves over this classification in the site’s open-access backend.

The page was initially created in 2018 under Penttilä’s birth name, Jukka Lindholm. 

Few changes were made until last month when, on April 5, a trans activist Wiki editor known as Maddy from Celeste updated the serial killer’s name to Michael Maria Penttilä and cited “deadnaming” as the reason.

Editor Maddy from Celeste, a pseudonym which is a nod to a video game character and its developer, is credited with having created the page “Transgender history in Finland,” and identifies as queer, trans, and non-binary.

“A serial murderer has zero rights – stop with the pathetic gender crap, HE is not a she,” reads one comment on the article’s edit page.

Other comments can be seen in the edit history and depict a back-and-forth exchange over “misgendering”, with one anonymous editor stating, “This person was born a male. Humans cannot change sex.”

In July of 2019, the category labeled “transgender serial killers” was deleted by Wikipedia editors. However, a category does exist for “female serial killers,” and Penttilä is one of two entries in the section regarding Finnish criminals.

Penttilä’s sadistic killing spree resembles the criminal behavior of American serial killer Harvey Marcelin. Marcelin, who identifies as transgender and uses the name Marceline Harvey, murdered three women and dismembered two of his victims’ bodies. Marcelin similarly targeted women trafficked in the sex industry, and is currently being held in the women’s ward at Rikers Island in New York. 

Like with Penttilä’s entry, a dispute between various Wikipedia contributors broke out over Harvey’s pronounsin 2022.

By Genevieve Gluck

Genevieve is the Co-Founder of Reduxx, and the outlet's Chief Investigative Journalist with a focused interest in pornography, sexual predators, and fetish subcultures. She is the creator of the podcast Women's Voices, which features news commentary and interviews regarding women's rights.

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Oulu District Court on Friday remanded a 15-year-old attempted manslaughter suspect into pre-trial custody.

The charge was reduced from attempted murder to attempted manslaughter.

The boy joined the court proceedings remotely from Haukipudas jail along with his attorney and mother.

"He has had very strong feelings against immigrants and a desire to act in some way. This partly stems from following anti-immigrant discussions and broadcasts online," his attorney, Kari Eriksson, told Yle.

More: Second stabbing at Oulu shopping centre in a week, police suspect racist motive

The teenager is suspected of stabbing a foreign man at the Valkea shopping centre in downtown Oulu on Tuesday. The victim was completely taken by surprise in the attack.

The suspect has admitted to the act but denied attempting to murder the victim. Eriksson told Yle that his client stabbed the man because of his foreign appearance.

The incident is being investigated as a hate crime as the boy suggested a racist motive for the act. The knife used by the boy was decorated with swastikas and he was wearing a shirt with Nazi-themed text.

Before the act, the boy cycled from his home to downtown Oulu, a distance of several dozen kilometres, carrying a knife with him.

The district court set 11 October as the deadline for filing charges.

The same shopping mall was the site of another stabbing last week, when a 12-year-old of foreign background was injured in an attack.

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The Serial Strangler

Michael Penttilä was born as Jukka Torsten Lindholm in July 1965 in Oulu, Finland. His criminal life began when he was only 16 years old in 1981, when he attacked a girl coming home from a party and dragged her to a basement where he beat, kicked and strangled her with a scarf. He also threatened to rape her. Luckily the girl managed to escape and later recognized Penttilä from a mugshot. Penttilä got probation and had to pay a fine, but his earlier thefts and wrongdoings sent him to Kerava Youth Facility in 1984. He got out in 1985.

On 26th of August 1985 in Oulu, Penttilä strangled his own 48 year old mother to death. He wasn’t caught just yet.

On 26th of July 1986 Penttilä met two 12 year old girls in town and lured them into following him with promise to pay them 10 Finnish marks if they helped him to carry alcohol to his apartment. Inside said apartment Penttilä locked one of the girls in closet and started to choke the other girl with a belt. Some time later Penttilä let the other girl out of the closet and assaulted her. The girl managed to escape and ran away. Penttilä fled from his apartment to a forest where the police caught him later. He was notably drunk. When investigating this insident Penttilä also confessed to murdering his own mother. He told that he had got mad to his mother for not being able to get him out from juvenile prison and for wanting to live with her new boyfriend. Later he withdrew his confession and told the police that he was drunk and high on drugs during his confession. In 17th of March 1987 Penttilä was sentenced to 9 years and 7 months to prison for two accounts of manslaughter as well as other crimes. The murder of his mother was seen only as an assault and negligent homicide that reduced his sentence to only 7 years of imprisonment. 

Penttilä was released on parole in May 1992 and he continued his criminal way of life a year after that. On 31st of May 1993 he strangled 42 year old woman to death in his grandmas apartment. He didn’t confess at first and claimed that someone random had done it and that he was set up. On 23rd of June 1993, while being on pretrial detention, Penttilä escaped Oulu County Police Station with some other man. Later in 13th of December 1993 he was sentenced to 9,5 years to inprisonment. He wasn’t satisfied with this so he made a complaint and claimed that what had happened was an accident. According to him he had suggested S&M sex and the woman had died accidentally while he choked her. After the murder Penttilä had wandered to his mothers grave and layed beside it for a while. The Appellate Court subsequently changed the sentence to 10,5 years and Penttilä was send to a special institution. 

While in prison Penttilä married Hannele Pentholm who was in prison for murdering her husband. They were married for couple years.

Penttilä was once again released on parole in November 2008 even though before his release  he was subjected to a treatment, which came to a conclusion that he was not yet ready for civilian life. 

In 2009 Penttilä left a restaurant/pub with a woman and they went to Penttilä’s apartment. As you may have guessed, Penttilä strangled her to death. On Autumn 2009 Penttilä ordered a masseuse to his apartment and while the woman was setting up her massaging table, Penttilä attacked her and started to strangle her. On september 2009 Penttilä ordered a cleaning lady to his apartment and tried to kill her. The woman managed to escape and she called the police. On 11th of June 2010 Penttilä was once again sentenced to prison for six years for three attempted manslaughters and numerous assaults. The authorities ordered Penttilä to sit through his whole sentence in prison, because they had conducted a psychologist evaluation on him and according to that he was very dangerous to other people’s life, freedom and well being. Altough on April of 2011 The Appellate Court of Oulu lowered his sentence to 4 years and 5 months, because they saw that he had only committed three aggravated assaults. At the same time, the Appellate Court ruled that the prerequisites for ordering Penttilä to sit out his punishment as a whole in jail did not exist.

On 21st to 22nd of August 2009, Penttilä committed rape, gross ill-treatment and false inprisonment at a hotel in Oulu. He also committed an assault on 1st to 31st of May 2009 in his own apartment. He was sentenced to 4 years and 4 months to prison on 2nd of March 2012. The authorities ordered Penttilä to execute his full sentence in prison, and the Appelate Court upheld the verdict in October 2012.

On Tuesday, 13th of October 2015, Penttilä escaped the Laukaa open prison. He got caught on the next day and he was sent to prison in Mikkeli. 

Penttilä was released in December 2016, but in April 2017 police ordered for him to be arrested for alleged aggravated crime and the preparation of a criminal offense. However Helsinki District Court released him during the investigation. In May 2017, the Helsinki Appellate Court annulled the decision and Penttilä was rearrested. On 7th of July 2017, the Helsinki District Court dismissed the prosecution of an aggravated criminal offense or a health offense and ordered Penttilä to be released. In May 2018, the Appellate Court changed the decision and Penttilä was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months imprisonment, and to pay the victim a compensation of 4,000 euros.

On 13th of April 2018, Penttilä killed a prostitute in her apartment in Helsinki. The prostitute had recognized Penttilä and according to Penttilä himself she had said “you’re the fucking serial strangeler” and called him a freak, which enraged him. After killing her Penttilä hid the body under a bed. He spent couple days in the victims apartment, which he cleaned before he left. Penttilä’s DNA or fingerprints weren’t found from there. The victim was found on May 4th. First the police didn’t have no idea who had killed her, especially when they didn’t find any DNA or the fingerprints, but the police recognized Penttilä from a CCTV tape that had captured his arrival to the apartment. He was a familiar face to the police of course so they arrested Penttilä two days later in Helsinki, suspected of murder. On 17th of May 2018, the police announced that Penttilä had confessed during interrogations that he had committed a homicide. In July, the Helsinki District Court sentenced him to life imprisonment for murder. He had held steady discretion in the murders, using several tools such as leather belts, tights or his bare hands. Penttilä later announced that he would appeal the court's decision.

Penttilä is serving his sentence in Helsinki prison under special surveillance.

Penttilä is the very first Finnish person who FBI has classified as a serial killer. Penttilä has spent two decades of his life in prison.

Penttilä has explained his interest in women’s clothing and using makeup that according to him started when he was around 15-16. His interest to S&M came from a stripper, that was “a pure domina” who taught him how to practice S&M. He has stated that controlling someones breathing is an interesting thing to him.

He appears to have some sort of a fetish towards leather clothing. He used his mothers blue leather gloves while strangling her, also wearing her scarf. In his later murders, he also used some sort of leather gloves (pictured above) while strangling his victims.

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PERFORMANCES   ON   STAGE

2022   LIQUID

Solo choreography for the dancer Lara Müller / Theater Museum, Helsinki, Finland

2022   2ND SKINS

Solo choreography for the dancer Lara Müller / Theater Museum, Helsinki, Finland

2022 POINT NEMO

Solo choreography for the dancer Laura Suonperä / Villa Rana, Jyväskylä, Finland

2021   NEXT STOP NEARBY WITH SOME RUMBA AND LIONS

Performance for 8 dancers, Dance Theater Kramppi / Forum, Jyväskylä, Finland

2018   CROSSING LATITUDES 

Solo choreography for the dancer Tanja Illukka / Espoo City Theatre, Globe Art Point, Espoo

2018      ROUTE 6353

 Duet / X-festival, Helsinki, OuDance Festival, Oulu, Folkets Hus, Haparanda

2016      w(a)(o)nderer

Duet, dancers Karolina Ginman and Tanja Illukka /  VTO, Helsinki, Finland

2016      AVENTURISTI

A solo choreography for the dancer Jukka Tarvainen / Annantalo Arts Centre, Helsinki, Finland

2014      LA CHASSE 

A solo choreography for the dancer Sanna From / Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France

2014      EQUULEUS  

A solo choreography for the dancer Veera Suvalo Grimberg / Vara Konserthus, 3:e Våningen, Gothenburg, Sweden

2011      21 NOTES  ON HUMAN  

A solo choreography for the dancer Hanna Ahti / Stoa Culture Center, Helsinki, Finland

2011      OBSCURO  

Performance for five dancers, Integrated Dance Co. Spinn / Pustervik, Gothenburg, Sweden  *EigenARTig Festival, Bremen, Germany *Enter Festival, Gent, Belgium * Festival Normal, Umeå, Sweden

2009      OPUS CORPUS II  

Choreography for 3 dancers, GRUPO ”Fuera de Eje”/ Teatro El Portón de Sánchez, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2008      MOERAE X  

Choreography for 3 dancers, GRUPO ”Fuera de Eje”/ Festival International Teatro y Danza Iquique, Chile

2006      KomproMISSI  

Solo choreography for the dancer Titta Court / Premier at Tornio, Finland *2007  European Women Theatre Festival, Tornio, Finland     *2007  Tanssia Tyrkyllä - festival, Oulu, Finland  *2008  DansFestival Barents, Hammerfest, Norway

2006      SISU    

Solo choreography for the dancer Tanja Kuisma / Tanssisavotta Festival, Mäntyharju, Finland  

2005      OPUS CORPUS  

Choreography for three dancers / Full Moon Dance Festival, Pyhäjärvi, Finland   *Stoa Culture Center, Helsinki, Finland

2005      ALUE  

Solo choreography for the dancer Tanja Kuisma / Indie Art Factory Festival, Ateneum, Helsinki  *2006 Verstas III – tapahtuma, Jyväskylä   *2006 Nu Scandik Festival, Tallinn  *2006 Tanssisavotta Festival, Mäntyharju  *2007 Finnish Institute, Paris, France 

 2005      PERSONLIG ORDBOK  

Solo choreography for the dancer Tove Sahlin. Nordic collaboration “Ny Nordisk Koreografi” Premiere at Haugesund Theater and Tysvar Culture Center, Norway *2006  Z-in-motion Festival, Zodiak - Center for New Dance, Helsinki, Finland

2003      POINT  

Choreography for five dancers / International Platform for Choreographers, Almada, Portugal

2003      REVIR (solo)     LES DEUX (duet)     B U R I N (3 dancers)

Three short works / Festival de L`été de Chaillé, Chaillé-les-Marais, France

2003      HAKKA  

Direction and choreography for two dancers, an actor and a musician / Hurraa Children Theater Festival / Stoa Culture Center in Helsinki, Finland *Performed also on other culture centers on Helsinki district

2002      ALMAT  

Choreography for three dancers / Dance Theater Taiga, performed also at Oulu Dance Center, Finland

2002      AVELAB(2) 

Choreography for eight dancers / Performed at Cable Factory, Helsinki, Finland

2001      ZQNE   

Choreography for six dancers/ examin work, Danshögskolan, Stockholm Hörsalen – Kulturhuset, Stockholm  *2001 Parkteatern - Stockholms Stadsteatern

MOVING INSTALLATIONS

Moving installations are durable performances

2021   b o d y s c a p e s A solo for the dancer Titta Court, ARS108 Contemporary Art Exhibition, Nokia, Finland, Urban Apa Dance Festival, Helsinki, Finland 2021  MARATON DE RUMBA A solo for the dancer Laura Lehtinen, ARS108 Contemporary Art Exhibition, Nokia, Finland

2020   FIGURE HORIZON FLOTTANT A solo for the dancer Elina Valtonen, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France

SITE - SPECIFIC   PERFORMANCES

2016      OPUS CORPUS IIII

Duet, dancers Karolina Ginman and Tanja Illukka/ Asematila, Helsinki, Finland

2016      UNCLASSIFIED VOL.2

A solo choreography for the dancer Tanja Illukka / Exhibition Space Inviders IV, Espoo, Finland

2015      L’AUTRE   

A solo choreography for the dancer Sara Gurevitsch / Vapaan Taiteen Tila, Helsinki, Finland

2014      BOOKSCAPES  

Performance at the Rikhardinkatu Library with 6 dancers / The Night of Arts, Helsinki

2013      GRID 9  

Collaboration with visual artist Eva Vevere, dancer Elena Jacinta / Totaldobze Art Center, Riga

2012      KERAVA SPA  

Choreographer’s Appointment participants&assistants/ Sinkka Museum, Kerava, Finland

2012      SOIVA PEIKKO  

A solo performance by Favela Vera Ortiz as part of the installation Kumiseva metsä at the opening exhibition of the new museum Sinkka / Kerava, Finland

2010      ÄLLÖÖ TÄÄ LAAV  

A solo choreography for the dancer Sanna From / Pakari, Karkkila, Finland          

2009      ENTRE TIERRAS    

A solo choreography for the dancer Gabriela Aldana-Kekoni / Cable Factory, Helsinki, Finland

2007      MOERAE   

Choreography for 3 dancers, GRUPO ”Fuera de Eje” / Villa Ocampo, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2006      LA SEULE   

Solo choreography for the dancer Riikka Kekäläinen / Åström kartano at Tornio, Finland   *2007  Cable Factory, Helsinki, Finland  *2007  Finnish Institute, Paris, France   *2008  Düsseldorf Tanzmesse, Germany

PERFORMANCES   IN   GALLERIES

2020   FIGURE HUMAINE A solo choreography for the dancer Elina Valtonen, Aarni Gallery, Espoo, Fin

2019     Horizon Invisibilis

A solo choreography for the dancer Elina Valtonen /  Kanneltalo Cultural Center, Helsinki, Finland

2017     100 asiaa - NYT

A solo choreography for the dancer Gabriela Aldana-Kekoni /  Caisa Cultural Centre, Helsinki, Finland

2017      RUJO

Solo for the dancer Tanja Illukka / Kallio Kunsthalle, Exquisite Corpse exhibition, Helsinki

2016      100 ASIAA

A solo choreography for the dancer Gabriela Aldana-Kekoni /  Caisa Cultural Centre, Helsinki, Finland

2014      UNCLASSIFIED VOL.1  

A solo choreography for the dancer Karolina Ginman/ Aarni Gallery, Espoo, Finland

2013      MYOCLONIC   

A solo choreography for the dancer Sanna From/ Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2013      SoOLO  

A solo choreography for the dancer Kathleen Gonzalez/ Frankston Arts Center, Melbourne, Australia

2010      TransCorpsTerre 

A solo performance at the atelier of sculptor Robert Keramsi / Libourne, France

2012      ZONE 780 

Duet, choreography mixing contemporary dance&argentinian tango / Centre d’animation des Halles, Paris   * Galerie Claire Corcia, Paris, France

Video works in collaboration 

2018      23° WEST                                                                                         collaboration with Vanessa White / gallery Saxtooth Ari, Tasmania

2017      CIRCA                                                                                             collaboration, Eva Vevere / Latvia National Museum, Riga, exhibition 'I Touch myself"

2017     Myoclonic                                                                                           Dance video / Anna Brownfield, Poison Apple Productions, Australia

CHOREOGRAPHER’ S    APPOINTMENT   social choreography concept since 2007

since 2007    Choreographer’ s Appointment

Solo works by appointment, Production by Zodiak – Center for New Dance, Helsinki Presented at June Events Festival, Paris, France, Tanssin Aika Festival, Jyväskylä, Finland / First Snow Festival, Amsterdam, Düsseldorf Tanzmesse, Germany  /  Moving Agendas Festival, Århus, Denmark / Footscray Community Arts Center, Melbourne, Australia / Multiplié Dance Festival, Trondheim, Norway

since 2008  Choreographer’ s Appointment (short versions) 

Mini solo works made for passers-by / HelsinKissBerlin - festival, Alexanderplatz, Berlin, Germany, HOP Helsinki Event, Cabel Factory, Helsinki Cité Internationale des Arts, Open Studios, Paris, France / Kuopio Tanssii ja Soi Festival, Finland

CHOREOGRAPHIES   FOR   THEATRE

2012 ILTATÄHTI  Rauma City Theatre, Finland, Directed by Sarianne Paasonen

2006 RONJA RYÖVÄRINTYTÄR  Summer Theatre of Törnävä, Finland, Directed by Sarianne Paasonen

2006  VAHVA HANNU  Pasila Center for handicapped persons, Finland, Directed by Sanna Fransman

2004  PETER PAN  Summer Theatre of Törnävä, Directed by Sarianne Paasonen

2001  ALADDIN  Rauma City Theatre, Finland, Directed by Sarianne Paasonen  

2000  PEPPI PITKÄTOSSU  Summer Theatre of Törnävä, Finland, Directed by Sarianne Paasonen

1999  SNOW WHITE  Summer Theatre of Törnävä, Finland, Directed by Sarianne Paasonen

1997  MESTARITONTTU  Gloria Theatre, Helsinki, Finland, Directed by Viktor Drevitski

1996 PREPARADISE, SORRY NOW  Tampere Student Theatre, Finland, Directed by Sarianne Paasonen

OTHER   ARTISTIC   WORKS

2014   Taidevaatemuotinäytös, choreography for Art Couture exhibition / Gallery Huuto, Helsinki, Finland

2005   MinÄÄ   Moving installation at Tanssisavotta Festival, Mäntyharju, Finland

2004   TEXTBOX   Moving installation at Turku Poetry Weeks Festival in collaboration with the poet Tommi Parkko and dancer Jatta Rauhaluoto / JattanssiStudio, Turku, Finland

2001   THIS IS MY BAG   Moving installation / Danshögskolan, Tukholma  

EXPERIENCE   AS   A   TEACHER

since 2015  Khinestetic language workshops, teaching language through dance and movement. Produced by Zodiak Center for new dance            

2010  January–March teaching choreography&composition at Keskuspuiston Ammattiopisto, Helsinki, Finland

since 2005  lectures about working methods and processes, presenting own works / for example at Nordic dance Seminar in Vaasa, Finland

since 2001  contemporary dance classes, repertoary workshops    

since 2001  Movement laboratory – workshops since 2001 at several schools at Helsinki district 

1999 – 2000 Movement laboratory – workshop for dancers, actors and mime artists, Stockholm, Sweden 

Choreographies for dance students

2015   ZONA TEMPORALIS    Examin work for 17 dancers, Karjaa College dance department students

2011   V e s t u s    Vantaa Dance school Theater Rikka. 

2004   POINTPOINTPOINTPOINT  and  LEGGERAMENTE CON PAUSA  / Examin works for 16 dancers, Karjaa College dance department students

2003   ZOOMING   Examin work for 17 dancers, Karjaa College dance department students

2001   AVELAB    Vantaa Dance school Theater Rikka

WORKING   IN   ARTIST   RESIDENCIES

2022  Theater Museum, Helsinki, Finland

2020, 2017, 2014, 2010. Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris / Pariisin taiteilijakaupungin Säätiö

2017  SIM Residency, Iceland

2016   Annantalo Arts Centre, Tanssin Talo ry / Helsinki, Finland

2015   Finnish Promotion Center / Arenys de Mar, Spain

2013   Art Center Totaldobze / Riga, Latvia

2013   Footscray Community Arts Center / Melbourne, Australia

2007, 2009   Collaboration with Fuera de Eje / Buenos Aires, Argentina    

2008   Berlin Residency / Arts Council of Uusimaa

2003   Ny Nordisk Koreografi / Haugesund Teater, Haugesund, Norway

GRANTS 

Several both personal and production grants since 2002, latest grants; 

2022  Arts Promotion Center, artist grant

2021  Arts Promotion Center, artist grant

2019  Kone Foundation, artist grant 

2018  Kone Foundation, artist grant

2017   The Finnish Cultural Foundation, artist grant

2016   Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland, artist grant             

2015   Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland, project grant

2014   City of Helsinki Cultural Office, artist grant

2014   Finnish-Swedish Cultural Foundation, project grant

2013   Arts promotion Center Finland, travel grant to Melbourne

2012   City of Helsinki Cultural Office, subsidie for travelling to Melbourne

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Junes Lokka's "racist" and "Nazi clown" case: Court sends clear message on who can be a racist in Finland

Junes Lokka’s “racist” and “Nazi clown” case: Court sends clear message on who can be a racist in Finland

When white people decide what is racism and how it can be used, we mess up and make matters worse for migrants, minorities and Others.

What are we supposed to make out of this? A well-known anti-immigration activist with ties to neo-Nazi and Islamophobic groups is called in a closed Facebook group by a journalist “a racist” and “Nazi clown.”

A district court in Oulu, where some sexual assault…

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A column in Helsingin Sanomat examines the use of 'doublespeak' by members of the nationalist Finns Party — meaning the practice of deliberately disguising a controversial statement behind innocent-sounding words.

HS cites as one example a post on X by Finns Party MP Ari Koponen, in which — on the surface at least — he bemoans the spread in Finland of lupines, an invasive plant species.

"The alien species arrives uninvited and unexpectedly. It spreads and multiplies uncontrollably until it has spread so widely that it leaves the native species behind. In Finland, especially in the south, this is already a big problem. Go and voluntarily remove the lupines," Koponen wrote.

HS notes that Koponen may indeed be referring to the purple plants that adorn Finnish roadsides, but it's also possible that he is continuing the Finns Party habit of saying one thing but meaning another — for example a coded reference to immigration.

"The use of irony makes it possible to address different audiences at the same time: A wink to one's own supporters, another message to others," political researcher Johanna Vuorelma said.

As well as citing other examples of this phenomenon within the Finns Party, HS writes that the timing of Koponen's post on Thursday afternoon has drawn widespread criticism.

Later that day, a 12-year-old child was stabbed in a shopping centre in Oulu, with police suspecting the attacker was a well-known far-right extremist.

HS ends the column by noting that it tried to reach Koponen on Friday, Saturday and Sunday to ask him to clarify the meaning of his post on X, but without success.

Child stabbing suspect faces remand hearing

Many of Monday morning's newspapers, including Oulu-based Kaleva, report that the suspect in the shopping centre stabbing of a child last Thursday will appear in court on Monday.

Kaleva writes that the man is suspected of stabbing one 12-year-old child and attempting to stab another. He will face a remand hearing at Oulu district court on Monday.

Tampere-based Aamulehti also reports on the remand hearing, naming the suspect as Juhani Sebastian Lämsä and noting he has an extensive record of violent crimes.

This includes pepper-spraying a Left Alliance politician in 2012, stabbing a man at Jyväskylä City Library in 2013, as well as being a member of the now-banned Nordic Resistance Movement.

Police are investigating Thursday's incident as a hate crime, as the two children targeted by Lämsä are both Finnish citizens of foreign background.

Festival fever

With a long winter season and relatively short summer, it's little wonder that Finland loves music festivals.

But not everyone is so enamoured. Iltalehti reports that people living in the vicinity of the Bolt Arena in Helsinki's leafy Töölö district experienced festival fever of an entirely different kind over the past weekend.

"At six o'clock on Friday, people were throwing up in a row on the street," one resident, Heidi Valo, tells IL.

The stadium was the venue for the Helsinki City Festival on Friday and Saturday, but residents reported seeing festival-goers urinating in the street and defecating in bins throughout the weekend.

People in the area — which houses the Olympic Stadium, the ice hockey stadium as well as the football ground — are used to large-scale events, but some residents told IL that this weekend's festival caused the greatest disturbance they've ever experienced.

"Nobody has anything against the events. The problem is in the thinking, the information and the attitude of the organisers," Valo says.

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On Monday the Päijät-Häme District Court in Lahti initiates proceedings on terror charges , an offence that is quite rare in Finland Helsingin Sanomat reports.

Three suspects are facing charges related to firearms offences and training to commit a terrorist act. A fourth man is facing charges over firearms possession.

The accused men are from Lahti, Oulu, Somero and Hyvinkää.

Investigators said that the group has been able to produce semi-automatic weapons based on the FGC-9 pistol calibre carbine using a 3D printer.

Authorities suspect that the group are neo-Nazis using accelerationist tactics aimed at destabilising society, starting a 'race war' and advancing far-right goals. Anti-immigration sentiments appear to have played a significant role in motivating the group, according to HS.

A tired Teemu

Denmark beat Finland 1-0 in Sunday's Euro2024 qualifier, with a goal 86 minutes into the game, Tampere-based Aamulehti writes.

The late winner was a bitter conclusion for the Finnish team after some stout defending over the preceding hour and a half, says AL. A moment of distraction by the Eagle Owl's Kaan Kairinen cost Finland the game when he was unable to block Danish player Pierre-Emile Højbjerg's long-distance shot.

Teemu Pukki also found it difficult when his runs were frequently thwarted by Andreas Christensen. Pukki said afterwards that he struggled to recover after the halftime.

"I didn't really recover from the sprints. After a couple of spurts, I was wheezing. I don't know, it's been a tough journey. The trip to Kazakhstan and then the trip here. I felt pretty alright today. I noticed that I was tired. Maybe I'm getting old," Pukki told Aamulehti.

Denmark's win leaves them in top spot in Group H. A place in the European Championships is still a long way off, Aamulehti notes, adding that it would require Finland to at least beat Kazakhstan and Northern Ireland.

Late summer lingers on

Finland is set to bask in unseasonably warm weather for a little while longer, according to Ilkka-Pohjalainen.

On Monday the mercury will hit, and even surpass, the 20-degree Celsius mark in many places across the country. Temperatures in Lapland will also stay unseasonably high, just below 20 degrees, the paper reports.

The Finnish Meteorological Institute however forecasts a U-turn mid-week, when a cold air mass crosses over to Finland. As a result, Wednesday and Thursday are expected to be a lot cooler with meteorologists adding that the days are also set to see some heavy rainfall.

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Events 4.8

217 – Roman emperor Caracalla is assassinated and is succeeded by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus. 876 – The Battle of Dayr al-'Aqul saves Baghdad from the Saffarids. 1139 – Roger II of Sicily is excommunicated by Innocent II for supporting Anacletus II as pope for seven years, even though Roger had already publicly recognized Innocent's claim to the papacy. 1232 – Mongol–Jin War: The Mongols begin their siege on Kaifeng, the capital of the Jin dynasty. 1250 – Seventh Crusade: Ayyubids of Egypt capture King Louis IX of France in the Battle of Fariskur. 1271 – In Syria, sultan Baibars conquers the Krak des Chevaliers. 1605 – The city of Oulu, Finland, is founded by Charles IX of Sweden. 1730 – Shearith Israel, the first synagogue in continental North America, is dedicated. 1812 – Czar Alexander I, the Russian Emperor and the Grand Duke of Finland, officially announces the transfer of the status of the Finnish capital from Turku to Helsinki. 1820 – The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Milos. 1832 – Black Hawk War: Around 300 United States 6th Infantry troops leave St. Louis, Missouri to fight the Sauk Native Americans. 1866 – Austro-Prussian War: Italy and Prussia sign a secret alliance against the Austrian Empire. 1886 – William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons. 1895 – In Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. the Supreme Court of the United States declares unapportioned income tax to be unconstitutional. 1904 – The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale. 1906 – Auguste Deter, the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, dies. 1908 – Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School. 1911 – Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity. 1913 – The 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution, requiring direct election of Senators, becomes law. 1918 – World War I: Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin sell war bonds on the streets of New York City's financial district. 1924 – Sharia courts are abolished in Turkey, as part of Atatürk's Reforms. 1929 – Indian independence movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest. 1935 – The Works Progress Administration is formed when the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 becomes law. 1940 – The Central Committee of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party elects Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal as General Secretary, marking the beginning of his 44-year-long tenure as de facto leader of Mongolia. 1942 – World War II: The Japanese take Bataan in the Philippines. 1943 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate increases by common carriers and public utilities. 1943 – Otto and Elise Hampel are executed in Berlin for their anti-Nazi activities. 1945 – World War II: After an air raid accidentally destroys a train carrying about 4,000 Nazi concentration camp internees in Prussian Hanover, the survivors are massacred by Nazis. 1946 – Électricité de France, the world's largest utility company, is formed as a result of the nationalisation of a number of electricity producers, transporters and distributors. 1950 – India and Pakistan sign the Liaquat–Nehru Pact. 1952 – U.S. President Harry Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic steel mills in an attempt to prevent the 1952 steel strike. 1953 – Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by British Kenya's rulers. 1954 – A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard collides with a Trans-Canada Airlines Canadair North Star over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37 people. 1954 – South African Airways Flight 201 A de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1 crashes into the sea during night killing 21 people. 1959 – A team of computer manufacturers, users, and university people led by Grace Hopper meets to discuss the creation of a new programming language that would be called COBOL. 1959 – The Organization of American States drafts an agreement to create the Inter-American Development Bank. 1960 – The Netherlands and West Germany sign an agreement to negotiate the return of German land annexed by the Dutch in return for 280 million German marks as Wiedergutmachung. 1968 – BOAC Flight 712 catches fire shortly after takeoff. As a result of her actions in the accident, Barbara Jane Harrison is awarded a posthumous George Cross, the only GC awarded to a woman in peacetime. 1970 – Bahr El-Baqar primary school bombing: Israeli bombers accidentally strike an Egyptian school. Forty-six children are killed. 1975 – Frank Robinson manages the Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league baseball's first African American manager. 1987 – Los Angeles Dodgers executive Al Campanis resigns amid controversy over racist remarks he had made while on Nightline. 1992 – Retired tennis great Arthur Ashe announces that he has AIDS, acquired from blood transfusions during one of his two heart surgeries. 1993 – The Republic of North Macedonia joins the United Nations. 1993 – The Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on mission STS-56.[18] 2004 – War in Darfur: The Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement is signed by the Sudanese government, the Justice and Equality Movement, and the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army. 2005 – A solar eclipse occurs, visible over areas of the Pacific Ocean and Latin American countries such as Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Venezuela.[19] 2006 – Shedden massacre: The bodies of eight men, all shot to death, are found in a field in Shedden, Elgin County, Ontario. The murders are soon linked to the Bandidos Motorcycle Club. 2008 – The construction of the world's first skyscraper to integrate wind turbines is completed in Bahrain. 2010 – U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sign the New START Treaty. 2013 – The Islamic State of Iraq enters the Syrian Civil War and begins by declaring a merger with the Al-Nusra Front under the name Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham. 2014 – Windows XP reaches its standard End Of Life and is no longer supported. 2020 – Bernie Sanders ends his presidential campaign, leaving Joe Biden as the Democratic Party's nominee.

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In an opinion piece, tabloid Iltalehti writes (siirryt toiseen palveluun) that Sweden's "worst nightmare" — being left outside the Nato military alliance — could also be bad news for Finland.

The deterioration of diplomatic relations between Sweden and Turkey has led to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declaring that Sweden "should not expect support from us for Nato", and Swedish worries have been heightened even further by Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto's (Green) comments earlier this week that Finland may have to consider going it alone on Nato accession.

"Sweden would be left isolated in a dangerous in-between state: it would have already publicly renounced its principle of non-alignment, but would remain outside Nato's security guarantees," Iltalehti writes, adding that an aggressor could "test" Nato by launching an attack on the strategically important island of Gotland, for example.

Although this scenario is unlikely, IL notes that such an outcome would pose significant complications for Finland too, especially if Finland was by then a Nato member.

"All parties continue to emphasise that the best option for everyone is for Sweden and Finland to join Nato together. That must still be the starting point in Finland as well," IL concludes.

State secrets trial verdict due

Many papers also report on Friday that a verdict is expected in the trial of three Helsingin Sanomat employees, accused of disclosing state secrets or attempted disclosure of state secrets.

Oulu-based Kaleva writes (siirryt toiseen palveluun) that the case relates to a HS article from 2017, which delved into the operations of an intelligence facility located in Central Finland.

The prosecutor in the case has told the court that the publication of the article endangered Finland's national security, Kaleva notes, adding the highly-anticipated ruling is expected to be delivered at 1pm on Friday afternoon.

Pizza dispute leads to death threat

Helsingin Sanomat reports (siirryt toiseen palveluun) on a quite exceptional court case in Turku, in which a dispute over the cost of a pizza delivery led to death threats and a 5,000 euro fine.

HS writes that the defendant in the case called a local pizza restaurant to submit an order, and began haggling about the price while on the phone. The restaurant agreed to a 3 euro discount — meaning the cost of the order plus delivery would be 23 euros — but when the courier arrived the man only wanted to pay 15 euros.

An argument ensued, during which the court heard that the defendant threatened to kill the courier and even showed that he was carrying a handgun.

The district court initially ordered the defendant to pay a fine of 5,000 euros as well as the full cost of the order, although this was reduced on appeal to just 50 euros.

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Before she was Prime Minister, Sanna Marin (SDP) criticised a PM for promoting a business his family was linked to. But now she plans to speak at a start-up conference alongside a head of her husband's company.

Helsingin Sanomat (siirryt toiseen palveluun) reports that Prime Minister Sanna Marin (SDP) will speak at the annual start-up conference Slush in Helsinki with a representative from her husband's private equity firm.

Marin is set to discuss the role of governments in creating an environment for innovation at the November event. The premier will be interviewed by Christian Miele, a general partner at Headline—the firm at which Marin's husband Markus Räikkönen is currently employed.

In an email, the PM told news agency STT that she intends to focus on European strategic autonomy from a technological perspective in her speech.

"I haven't considered it problematic to participate in the discussion, because the themes in it are general and the same ones that I have talked about on numerous other occasions. We are still evaluating participation from a conflict of interest point of view and will discuss the matter with the Chancellor of Justice," Marin wrote in her email.

The PM did not answer how she wound up participating in the event or whether she sees a conflict of interest in offering visibility to her spouse's workplace. Marin said that she discussed participation with her husband and that she has previously met Miele.

In January 2017, many media outlets reported that the state had promoted the Oulu-based Chempolis biotech firm, through investment by majority state-owned energy company Fortum. At the time, then-Prime Minister Juha Sipilä's (Centre) children owned shares in the company.

Marin, still an MP at the time, took to Twitter to react to the situation.

"Every day it seems more and more that Sipilä is not in politics to promote the interests of our country, but those of his inner circle," Marin tweeted in 2017.

Threat maker "harmless"

In an update on Thursday's violent threat made against the Eastern Uusimaa District Court, Iltalehti (siirryt toiseen palveluun) reported that police detained the individual behind the threat.

"The person has been spoken to and found to be harmless. The individual that made the threat has no connections to gang activity," the Eastern Uusimaa police confirmed in a tweet.

According to police, the threat was received by the court in an email on Wednesday night, and concerned the trial of rapper Milan Jaff, who was sentenced in the spring to 10 years in prison for several violent crimes and now faces further charges.

The proceedings of the criminal case will continue in court on Friday and next week.

Police have made a threat assessment related to the proceedings and special security arrangements will continue in place.

According to Timo Heikkinen from the district court's office, threats to the court are exceptional, though there was such an incident in December of 2021.

"These don't happen every year," Heikkinen confirmed.

Dip in demand

Oulu-based media outlet Kaleva (siirryt toiseen palveluun)reported that consumers are using far less electricity compared to a year ago.

In August, the availability of gas in Europe weakened significantly due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, forcing the price of electricity to skyrocket.

Now, electricity use has decreased by almost 14 percent since last year.

"The decrease is so large that it cannot be explained simply by temperatures or economic cycles," Finnish Energy (ET) CEO Jukka Leskelä told Kaleva.

In September, electricity consumption in Finland was the same as it was in June, when electricity consumption typically drops as it is bright and warm.

"Electricity users have done a lot to reduce electricity use and ease the increase in their electricity bills," Leskelä added.

In addition, the net import of electricity fell by 70 percent since last September.

The drop in imported electricity has been possible because domestic demand has decreased, while at the same time there is more domestic production. More wind power is constantly being produced and the nuclear reactor Olkiluoto 3 is set to start regular electricity production in December.