PURRA’S SCISSORS: A while ago, Riikka Purra posted a picture of herself flanked by some other Finns Party politicians, holding scissors. Scissors are a fairly traditional (and self-evident) symbol for austerity in Finnish discourse, usually utilized by anti-cuts demonstrators, this way recuperated by Purra herself – leading to a firestorm of criticism, as Purra was accused of not taking the cuts she’s committed to bringing through seriously enough, almost making mockery of the suffering that will surely be inflicted on many people.
How were they able to arrest someone at the stage of publishing a threatening manifesto? Do you know how the laws for that work?