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- Naantali cottage discovery: man shot wife and himself in May
- Naantali summer cottage killing: man shot his wife and himself in May
- Helsinki city centre rapist allowed to keep sentence – appeals court rejected appeal
- Helsinki police officer suspected of rape and human trafficking – investigation complete
- Murder allegation in Tampere's Kaukajärvi – 37-year-old released from pre-trial detention in August
- Police seek victims of man who harassed children at Sello shopping centre in Espoo
- Appeal court dismissed charges against retired crime commissioner who identified Finnish victims in Thailand
- Comanches MC expands into Finland – KRP warns of tensions in criminal underworld
- Under-15-year-old drove stolen car fleeing police in Jämsänkoski
- Under-15 suspected of stealing two cars and fleeing police in Jämsänkoski
- Police shot at fleeing driver in Pyhäntä – driver had no driving licence
- Violent weekend in Rovaniemi – nearly 400 vehicles ordered to leave car park
- Ylöjärvi: Friends robbed 20-year-old of 30,000 euros from father's life insurance payout
- Priit Tublin sentenced to 6.5 years – assaulted over 20 elderly people in Turku
- Turku "body freezer" sentenced to 110 daily fines – brother received 40 daily fines
- Fesih Basinc, 43, who assisted in murder, appears before appeals court in Espoo – previously fled to Germany
- Alfa-PVP seizures collapse to one-third – amphetamine halved, cannabis grew
- Man charged with murder released – arrested again hours later in Seinäjoki
- Police seek witnesses: man has harassed women at Matkus bus stops in Kuopio
- Unlawful entries into MPs' residences: police investigate around 20 cases
- Two home-care nurses accused of causing death in Pöytyä – trial begins in Turku
- Life-sentence prisoner Pyynönen struck fellow inmate with coffee-pot implement at Riihimäki – sentenced to 2.5 years
- Russian spies suspected of breaking into Finnish MPs' homes in intimidation campaign
- Jyväskylä man suspected of sexual offences against 20 children in scouting activities
- Niuvanniemi escapee Jani Väänänen missing for over two weeks – police search for murder suspect
- Human trafficking suspicion in Finland: doctor suspected, academic woman victim
- Police investigate treatment of Chinese workers at Kotka battery materials factory
- Around 20 suspected break-ins at MPs' homes in Helsinki
- Payment card fraud ring exposed in Finland – link to Foxtrot street gang, €150,000 in criminal proceeds
- Amphetamine network exposed in Turku – 320 kilograms of drugs brought into Finland
- Man with knife approached Foreign Minister Stubb in central Helsinki in 2008
- Naantali spa shooting: 37-year-old remanded on aggravated assault charge
- Man arrested for sexual assault on child in Espoo shopping centres
- 38-year-old man exposed himself to children in Espoo – police seek witnesses
- Espoo man arrested – suspected of child sexual harassment in shopping centres
- Man exposed genitals to children in Espoo shopping centres – arrested
- 45-year-old man charged with human trafficking and rape in Espoo – prosecutor seeks 13 years imprisonment
- South-Western Finland Police Seize Bladed Weapons Daily – Law Tightened in 2026
- Inga Tahvanainen missing from Punkaharju: police continue search
- Runner shot with air gun in Nokia – police seek tips from Pinsiöntie
- Suspected killing in Pihtipudas – victim and suspect knew each other
- Jani Väänänen, fugitive from Niuvanniemi Hospital, still at large – police search capital region
- Man suspected of murder in Kuopio previously convicted of manslaughter almost 20 years ago
- Minor stabbed at Koivukylä railway station – suspect arrested
- TV police officer charged with death of young woman – ambulance not dispatched in Uusimaa
- TV police officer charged with causing young woman's death – failed to record ambulance callout as completed
- Three young men arrested on suspicion of attempted murder in Kirkkonummi
- Intimate partner violence surged up to 100% – East Uusimaa police released alarming figures
- Three young men arrested on suspicion of attempted murder in Kirkkonummi
- Rolf Nordmo, accused of murder, spoke about his relationship with Janne Puhakka in the Court of Appeal
- Icon property company trial begins – 400 victims and 40 million euros
- Rolf Nordmo in appellate court: "I cannot explain why I shot" – murder conviction contested
- Tampere woman arrested in connection with strangling death in Vaasa – male partner found dead at home
- 22-year-old sergeant dies in maritime rescue exercise – two officers charged with causing death
- AI-generated nude images of over a hundred girls – dozens of crime reports filed in Lappeenranta
- Vaasa woman suspected of killing boyfriend by strangling – preliminary investigation complete
- Airisto Gem criminal case in Turku Court of Appeal – prosecutor seeks harsher sentence for Melnikov
- Carer acquitted of assault charges at Espoo Rinnekoti – five minors were alleged victims
- Airiston Helmi economic crime case in appeals court – prosecutor: company was a "front"
- Intentional fire in Kirkkonummi: five young men suspected of attempted murder