August Rebellion | Elokapina’s internal channel published a message that idealized “the collapse of the government” – Liike resigns

Environmental movement A message glorifying violence was published on Elopinina’s internal discussion channel, fantasizing about killing the government. Elokapina says it condemns the message. It has since been removed.

Screenshots of the message started to spread on social media on Saturday. Among other things, a member of parliament Ari Koponen (ps) assistant Jyri Tallgren shared screenshots of the message message service in X. Also the basic Finns’ magazine Suomen news reports about the matter.

To be anonymous the remaining author is probably commenting on the vandalism of the parliament building that took place on Wednesday, in which the Swedish group Återställ våtmarker participated in addition to Elokapina. The police are investigating the case as aggravated assault.

In the deleted message, the bumping of the House of Parliament is called “breathtakingly beautiful”. The author associates “holy bloody fury” with poking.

“How many times in my imagination have I seen myself cutting down the entire government with an ax, covered in blood, stained with blood like Quentin Tarantino by Natural Born Killers in the final scene,” the message read.

In the message shown in the screenshots, similar depictions of violence are repeated even later.

Animal rebellion wrote on Sunday message service in Xthat it renounces the rhetorical violence visible in the screenshots and its sympathy. According to the movement, the message violates its principles of non-violence.

Elokapina says that yesterday and today there was also a discussion in his group about how some people responded to the message of violence. Screenshots published on social media also showed responses written by other people to the original message of violence. In these responses, the message was viewed positively.

Elokapina says in the message service X that the violent message was deleted a few hours after it was published. The message was published in a group to which, according to Elokapina, approximately 4,000 people have access. Moderation of the group is done on a voluntary basis.