Finland's daily papers carry varied news this Monday, with tabloid Ilta-Sanomat running an analysis of an alleged increase in violence against police officers. The paper's multi-page post-shooting package includes a detailed bio of last Friday's murder-suicide perpetrator Jorma Nyfors.
The IS editorial is headlined with the claim that police in Finland are threatened with firearms "every day". Not surprisingly, the tragic events in Vihti sparked a conversation about illegal guns, and the leading article figures the number of unregistered weapons at tens of thousands of units.
Nyfors, the violent man behind the senseless killing of a policeman with an automatic weapon, is said in a lengthy biographical article in the same issue to have been a "nightmare" to Vihti residents who had a chip on his shoulder for the authorities. Nyfors is survived by his wife, who lost 70,000 euros due to her late husband's distraint complications.
Drownings in Karelia
Ilta-Sanomat's sister paper Iltalehti, like the rest of Finland's dailies, reports on another tragic case, this time in Karelia in Russia.
Yesterday Sunday a group of 51 people crossing lake Säämä were set upon by a storm, and the boat capsized, killing a total of 13 children and one adult. The group consisted of the participants and supervisors of a canoeing camp.
Publicist Vladimir Markin of the accident investigation commission says in IL that the guilty parties "will be charged with a crime". The camp is notorious for being ill-run, its custodians often found drunk and careless.
The region of Karelia has announced a period of mourning for the drowned.
Neziri win, Koriseva return
In less sorrowful news, Finnish athlete Nooralotta Neziri has secured a win and new Finnish record in the 100m sprint. She broke her own record in the process, raising the national top time by 0.16 seconds to 12.98 seconds.
Neziri, who is only 23 years old, describes the run as "easy" in Tampere region paper Aamulehti.
"The energy just came to me and carried me all the way to the finish line. I didn't have to squeeze out a effort at all," she beams.
Neziri's accomplishment puts her 20th in the world in the 100m, and a return ticket to Rio de Janeiro's Olympics is her prize.
Meanwhile back in the tabloids Finnish national favourite, singer Arja Koriseva takes up lead story space with her return to the stage following her breast cancer diagnosis last August – and the attendant drug and therapy regimen.
Koriseva admits in the Iltalehti piece to being nervous before stepping back into the limelight, but came away from her gig "thankful". She has been a fixture on the Finnish tango, pop and evergreen scene since the 1980s, and has published some twenty albums of music.
