Teuvo Hakkarainen

Teuvo Hakkarainen (born 12 April 1960, in Viitasaari) is a Finnish politician and former member of the European Parliament.

[4] On 30 April 2024, Hakkarainen decided to run in the 2024 European Parliament election in Finland as an uncommitted candidate of the Freedom Alliance after the Finns Party refused to nominate him for re-election.

[9] In October 2011, Hakkarainen told the tabloid Ilta-Sanomat that homosexuals, lesbians and Somalis ought to be deported to Åland to form their own society.

[12] In April 2011, Hakkarainen openly expressed his opinions towards black people and Muslims in an interview with Helsingin Sanomat.

During the interview Hakkarainen used a pejorative word neekeriukko (which translates to male "negro" or "nigger" and is considered as an offensive racial slur).

After his election to the Finnish parliament, Ilta-Sanomat reported that Haka-Wood had been granted 461,750 euros of European Union subsidies for a development project, even though Hakkarainen had run a heavily Eurosceptic campaign.

[24] In 1986, Hakkarainen was a member of a gang that broke into the Suomussalmi church and stole 125 eucharist chalices, 24 bottles of sacramental wine and the money offerings.

Teuvo Hakkarainen and Laura Huhtasaari during the Constitution of the 9th legislature of the European Parliament in 2019