Harri Vuorenpääparty secretary for the True Finns, writes on X on Friday evening that a True Finn member of parliament was involved in “an intermezzo” in Helsinki on Friday night.
“The sequence of events is currently unclear. The police are investigating the incident and we are waiting for more information,” writes Vuorenpää on X.
Seiska announced just before that it is about Timo Vornanen (True) and that it is about shooting. According to Seiska, he is suspected of serious assault and firearms offences.
Vuorenpää confirms later on Friday evening to Ilta-Sanomat that the person is Vornanen.
Member of Parliament Timo Vornanen (Sannf) is suspected of having been involved in some kind of incident in central Helsinki on the night of Friday.Markku Ulander/Lehtikuva
STT has reached the chairman of the True Finns Riikka Purra who states that she “is very shocked by the situation” and that “the situation is very serious”. Purra tells STT that the party has not been able to reach the Member of Parliament during Friday.
Purra tells Yle that her understanding is that Vornanen would have fired, but emphasizes that her information is preliminary.
In place in the plenum that went into the night
Vornanen was born in 1969, from Joensuu and a member of parliament in his first term. His civilian profession is a policeman.
On his website, he writes that he mainly worked in field assignments within the police. From the age of 15, he has been hunting, according to the site.
According to the Riksdag’s roll call report, he was present in the plenary session on Thursday. The plenary went on well into the night, until 02.
It is not clear when a Member of Parliament may leave the chamber, but Vornanen himself made an update on Facebook on Thursday evening that the clock was approaching 11 p.m. and that it was starting to be time to retire and go to bed.
Seiska writes that the sequence of events must have started at Bar Ihku on Anttigatan, not far from the Riksdag House, in the center of Helsinki.
According to Seiska, two members of the Riksdag must have been involved. According to Seiska, the shooting itself must have taken place when the two left the nightclub.
According to Seiska, the sequence of events must have started in Bar Ihku in Kampen in Helsinki, near the Riksdag house.Jussi Lankinen/Lehtikuva
The true AnticainenMember of Parliament for the True Finns and from the same constituency as Vornanen, writes late Friday evening on X that she was there on Thursday evening.
“I was there yesterday and as an outsider saw part of the intermezzo”.
She writes that she is assisting the police in investigating the matter in every possible way.
“I understand very well that the need for information is enormous, but it is even greater for the police, who carry out an investigation by hearing all the eyewitnesses and finally inform about the whole.”
According to the constitution, the Speaker of the Riksdag must be informed if a member of the Riksdag is arrested by the police. On Friday was informed Jussi Halla-aho about a case, he tells Iltalehti.
“I have been alerted to a case that fits the description”, he tells the newspaper and points out that the information is still very scarce.
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