Police say they have concluded their preliminary investigation about derogatory comments that MP Teuvo Hakkarainen wrote about Muslims on his Facebook page in July.
In July, shortly after the terror attack in Nice, France, the MP from the populist Finns Party wrote that “all Muslims are not terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims.”
In order to officially explain his comments, Hakkarainen spoke with police during the preliminary investigation.
Case headed to prosecutor’s office
The case will next be examined by the Prosecutor General’s office which will determine whether charges of incitement of racial hatred will be filed.
The prosecutor’s office has also previously investigated Hakkarainen’s other comments, including ones about “negro men” and heckling Muslims.
Previously, Hakkarainen also suggested that all of Finland’s Somalis and homosexuals should be sent to the semi-autonomous island province of Åland to form an ideal society, but later said he was only joking.