Finnish President Calls Growing Migrant Grooming Gang Scandal 'Unbearable'

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The migrant grooming gang scandal that shook Finland in late 2018 appears to have escalated, earning stern condemnation from Finnish President Sauli Niinistö and Prime Minister Juha Sipilä and triggering renewed calls to strip dual citizen sex criminals of Finnish citizenship.

Police in Oulu, northern Finland, have launched a preliminary investigation into four new cases of suspected sexual abuse of girls under the age of 15. At the same time, a similar investigation featuring migrant suspects is going on in the capital city of Helsinki, where a series of arrests have been carried out, national broadcaster Yle reported.

These police announcements follow a previous round of investigations last November in which eight men with immigrant backgrounds were detained on suspicion of partaking in a grooming gang that abused underage girls as young as ten.

According to the Oulu police, the newly discovered spate of offences allegedly took place during the summer of 2018. So far, three foreign-background individuals have been arrested in connection with the crimes. According to Interior Minister Kai Mykkänen, the suspects in the newest assault cases came to Finland from North Africa and the Middle East. Some of the suspected men are Finnish citizens and some are awaiting asylum decisions.