[1] Police had been investigating the case since 2019,[2] and at the end of 2021, five Finnish men were imprisoned in the Kankaanpää region and Tampere.
[5] European Police Office Europol participated in the study of the Kankaanpää group by providing expert assistance.
[9] The book tells about a sect known as the Order of Nine Angles that aims to destroy Western democracy and values by creating a new one through chaos and destruction.
[10][11] In a home search conducted in December 2019, police seized, among other things, a dozen unauthorized firearms from the group.
[14] Of the materials found by the police, it is possible to build a bomb similar to the one used by Anders Behring Breivik's attack in Oslo in 2011.
[12] In addition, the group held a wide range of military equipment, including gas masks, helmets, field suits and combat vests.
[12] The man was the main suspect in arson, but police failed to gather sufficient evidence to prosecute.