The case occurred two weeks after another minister, also from his formation (Party of the Finns), resigned due to pro-Nazi statements that marred the first days of the prime minister’s government. Petteri Orpoconservative.
Riikka Purra, leader of the nationalist anti-immigration party and member of the government coalition, was accused Monday of having used multiple racist, violent or anti-Muslim expressions in comments published in 2008 on the blog of another far-right politician, Jussi Halla-aho. .
The Finnish press attributes the texts signed by “riikka” to the Finance Minister, who was not yet engaged in politics at the time, due to the coincidences in many personal details between the author of the comments and the current ultra leader.
In those texts, he refers to black people with the derogatory adjective “neekerit”, to Muslims as “mocha penises” and to immigrants from Turkey as “Turkish monkeys”.
“If any of you are in Helsinki, does anyone sign up to spit on beggars and beat up black children?” Riikka wrote on the blog forum in July 2008. Two months later he published a “post” in which he claimed that , if they gave him a gun, “there would be dead bodies even on the commuter train.” The 45-year-old representative-elect was recognized as a “riikka” at that forum.