Judgments|The neighbor of the row house in Paloheinä was put to the test when the man began to assess the mental health of another resident.
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A man bullied his neighbor in Paloheinä.
The man sent messages to his neighbor’s employer and the board of the housing association.
The court sentenced the man to a 100-day fine for gross defamation and damage.
Sixty the man began to bully his neighbor, with whom they had differences of opinion regarding the use of the yards of the townhouse company located in Paloheinä.
The man started watching his neighbor in the summer of 2021 and continued until the spring of the following year.
Frustrated by the disagreements, the man started sending messages to the chairman of the board of the housing association and to his neighbor’s employer, in which he said, among other things, that the man’s opinion was that the neighbor’s “look and character were not healthy”.
In the e-mail he sent to the neighbor’s employer, the man said that the neighbor was staring into the man’s windows “in a special way”.
Man felt that with 40 years of business experience, he was suitable to evaluate his neighbor’s mental health.
He also accused his neighbor of banging on the lid of the garbage can, breaking the support sticks of the pea tree, and constantly breaking the man’s dog fence.
According to the court, the man made strong claims about the neighbor’s mental health and ability to work in his messages and called his neighbor psychotic.
The man denied having committed the crime in his messaging. According to him, the claims about the neighbor’s behavior were not baseless, and the man’s intention was not to insult his neighbor’s honor, but to express his concern for his neighbor.
Man pleaded in court that, based on freedom of speech, he had the right to present his assessment of the neighbor’s mental well-being and to share his views with the neighbor’s employer as well.
In the opinion of the district court, the man’s actions were teasing. The neighbor, who had a demanding job, had to see a doctor and a psychologist because of the man’s messages before he could continue his normal work.
The man also broke the side mirror of his neighbor’s car. There was video footage of this, and the man himself did not deny what he did, but mainly wanted to clarify that he did not break the mirror with a hammer but with a piece of fence.
Helsinki the district court sentenced a man born in 1962 to a 100-day fine for gross defamation and damage. The amount to be paid with the husband’s income was 6,600 euros.
The man was ordered to compensate the neighbor 3,000 euros for the suffering and expenses related to breaking the car.
The man appealed the sentence to the Court of Appeal. The Helsinki Court of Appeal did not grant him permission for further proceedings.
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