Euro elections | Convicted of attempted murder aspires to the European Parliament – appeals to his work as a law enforcement officer

to the European Parliament seeks a candidate who has been convicted of a serious crime against life and health. According to Helsingin Sanomat’s investigation, the candidate for the EU parliament is on the lists of the open party Jarkko Malone52, has been sentenced in July 2011 to years in prison for attempted murder.

The district court found that Malone had intentionally stabbed a member of the group in the chest in a life-threatening spot during a night out in Turku.

“The fact that the blow did not hit the lung cavity was due to chance,” writes the court.

Malonen appealed to the Court of Appeal and considered that he was only guilty of aggravated assault committed as an exaggeration of emergency protection. According to him, “the blows of the knife had been of little force”.

The Court of Appeal reduced the sentence from the three years and four months given by the district court to exactly three years.

With Malo also has other legally binding convictions for crimes against life and health.

In autumn 2018, he received a 40-day fine for abusing his spouse. In 2007, he was given a five-month unconditional prison sentence for two assaults on two men in a party.

Malone has also received an unconditional prison sentence for aggravated fraud and forgery. In April 2008, the district court sentenced him to six months in prison for having withdrawn 13,000 euros from another person’s bank account on three separate occasions. He had used a fake Kela card to prove his identity.

He also has punishments that led to fines for, among other things, pinching, the most recent from November 2018.

Jarkko Malone commented on the charges and sentence he received by saying that “they are twenty years old, what significance do they have to this day”.

“I’m currently a law enforcement officer by profession, and there are pretty tough screenings to become one.”

According to the Police Board’s register, Malose has been granted an order supervisor’s license in March 2021. The order supervisor has the right to use force to remove and apprehend a person in his area of ​​responsibility.

Helsingin Sanomat according to a report made in 2019 the supervision of the order supervisors’ permits was severely hampered: some of the order supervisors had received a permit, even though the court had previously convicted them of, for example, violent crimes.

Malonen emphasizes that it has already been six years since the recent verdicts.

“Can’t a person change his ways? Then in 2017 I moved from Satakunta to Kanta-Häme, started a family and studied. I made a complete life change,” Malonen says.

He has not told the party about his convictions because he has not considered it appropriate.

Malonen represented by the open party says that they want a new political culture in Finland. The chairman of the party is himself a doctor of nuclear physics who aspires to the European Parliament Petrus Pennanen52.

Pennanen belonged to the council group of the Swedish People’s Party in Helsinki, but Rkp fired the deputy commissioner from his group due to a criminal conviction in January 2024.

The Helsinki District Court sentenced Pennanen to an 85-day fine for the drug crime, because he had possessed marijuana, MDMA and LSD.

European of those aspiring to parliament, extremely few have committed a serious crime against life or health and had to serve in prison for such a crime, according to HS’s report.

A total of 232 people are candidates for the European elections.

Along with Malonen, the only absolute prison sentence for a crime against life or health that came up in the investigation was handed down to the candidate of the Basic Finns Veikko for Vallini. Vallin brought up his verdict a couple of weeks ago on Facebook after HS had asked him about the verdict.

Vallin recalled that he had received an unconditional sentence of two or three months in Sweden for a “knapsack fight”, but that he had served time in Finland. It’s been about 40 years since the verdict.

So far, HS has not been able to verify what Vallini said from an official source.

Sitting of the MEPs are running for office Teuvo Hakkarainen, who is running for the European Parliament on the lists of the Freedom Alliance party. Member of Basic Finns Hakkarainen was sentenced in 2019 abuse and sexual harassment.

The Helsinki Court of Appeal sentenced Hakkarainen to an 80-day fine, i.e. to pay 5,440 euros. Hakkarainen was sentenced by a former member of parliament Veera Ruoho (kok) from sexual harassment and abuse.

In addition, he had to pay 1,400 euros in compensation to Ruoho.

HS has investigated the criminal backgrounds of election candidates and elected officials since 2017because candidates or parties usually do not voluntarily disclose their backgrounds to voters.

Among the candidates for the 2023 parliamentary elections four people were revealed, who had been sentenced to prison for stabbing. Three of them were on the lists of the blue-black movement, Finland’s people first and Power belongs to the people. In these cases, the victim had not died

Instead, one man from the non-committal list of the Finnish people first party had stabbed his victim so badly, that this was dead. The man was sentenced for the manslaughter committed as an exaggeration of emergency protection.

In the spring of 2023, the votes of candidates who committed severe violence remained very small.