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Finnish PM escapes knife attack in Southern Finland

Monday, 22 October 2012
Finnish Prime Minister, Jyrki Katainen, was on Monday, attacked by a man with a knife, as he was receiving people in a political events in the city of Turku.

Media reports in Finland say that the Prime Minister's security guards managed to stop the attack and Katainen was thus not hurt.

Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen was visiting a National Coalition election stand in Turku Monday afternoon when a man approached him concealing a knife Finnish broadcaster, Yle reports.

Yle say that the man exchanged a few words with Katainen before suddenly pulling out the weapon, which he then dropped in front of the premier.

The Prime Minister's security quickly arrested the man. Head of the National Coalition's party group in southwest Finland, Aki Lehtonen said that the Prime Minister was quickly whisked away to safety.

An eyewitness interviewed by Yle’s Turku service described the scene in which Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen was apparently threatened by a knife-wielding man.

He said that "a man around the age of 25 came, he had a beard, brown hair and was relatively normal looking. He waited his turn and began to talk with the Prime Minister and he said ‘I’m in a very difficult situation and I need your help,’ and the Prime Minister seemed to be listening to him,” the eyewitness explained.

“His next statement was, ‘I came to kill to pretend to kill you.” He kneeled and the weapon appeared on the ground, some kind of knife. The security men immediately took him away and held him and the weapon. The Prime Minister moved off in the opposite direction,” the eyewitness said, according to Yle.
By Scancomark.com Team

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