TheKursiivi printing house arson took place in the early morning of 26 November 1977, destroying the printing house Kursiivi in Helsinki inLauttasaari. Kursiivi printed the newspaper of theTaistoist wing of theCommunist Party of FinlandTiedonantaja, the Swedish language communist newspaperArbetartidningen Enhet andFinnish People's Democratic League youth wing'sPioneeritoveri.[1]
A homemade bomb was also found in the printing house, which, however, had not had time to explode. In addition, the exterior walls of the building had been defaced with swastikas.[1] Police arrested a man suspected of setting fire on December 9. The left called on the state to take action against the far right because of the incident. The case and its litigation also attracted attention abroad.
Apparently Siitoin had an informant inside the police force who tipped him off about the investigation, leading to left-wing newspapers denouncing "fascist elements inside the police".[2]Members of the Neo-NaziPatriotic Popular Front were convicted of arson, includingPekka Siitoin, knownneo-Nazi andoccultist, party secretary Seppo Lehtonen, formerFrench Foreign Legion soldier Timo Pekkala and two people from Kotka.[3][4] In connection with the Kursiivi printing house arson lawsuit,Tiedonantaja magazine claimed thatWhite Russian émigréBoris Popper had acted as a financier of Siitoin and acquired weapons and ammunition from the military's warehouses for the use of Siitoin's groups.[5]
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