Finnish finance minister apologizes for racist blog posts, writing about shooting immigrants

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\u0027If they gave me a gun, there’d be bodies on a commuter train,\u0027 Riikka Purra wrote in one of the posts from 2008, referring to immigrants

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She admitted she had made racist comments that included references to “Turkish monkeys” and a racial slur about black street hawkers. “I do not accept any kind of violence, racism or discrimination,” she said on Tuesday after admitting she had written “stupid or absurd” things in the past.It is the latest scandal to embarrass the three-week-old government led by Petteri Orpo, the prime minister and leader of the National Coalition Party, which won the elections.Article content

Mari Rantanen, the Eurosceptic party’s interior minister, said she was not a conspiracy theorist after media reports emerged alleging she believed Finns were being replaced by other races.

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