School graduates|A festive crowd gathered in Kaivopuisto this year as well. In western Uusimaa, the police say they have registered several crime reports.
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Helsinki Kaivopuisto will be emptied again this year on the evening of the end of the school year. The emptying started at half past eleven in the evening.
“There is starting to be such an uneasy atmosphere that the police decided this way,” says the police communication.
According to the police, as in previous years, there are many young revelers. Many are intoxicated, and according to the police, there have been a dozen fights in the park throughout the evening.
The police appeal to the revelers’ own safety in their decision. According to it, the park is cleared to protect against crime and disturbances. The patrols go around the park and tell people to leave the place.
Kaivopuisto has been emptied on similar festive nights many times before, such as earlier this spring on May Day.
Previously in the evening, the police said that the decision-making night had started off as usual calmly in Helsinki.
During the early evening, the police went around the city and supervised the celebrations in parks and beaches, for example. They are places where young people traditionally spend a party night, and the police say that they intervened in the alcohol consumption of minors by, among other things, pouring out their drinks.
Some fireworks were also set off in Kaivopuisto in the evening.
School graduations and graduations have been celebrated on Saturday, and many parties usually continue well into the evening and night around the city.
The weather favored spending the evening in the parks this year. Temperatures of around 21 degrees were still measured in Helsinki after nine in the evening.
Western Uusimaa the police department says that the final night went “relatively peacefully”.
In Espoo, the police used the same gimmick for the sixth year to calm young revelers. The patrols played classical music on Mellsten beach.
“We have noticed that classical music has a calming effect on young partygoers,” says the chief constable Mikko Juvonen in the police bulletin.
The police say that they also used, for example, a drone in their surveillance.
The police also say that they have made several crime reports in the Western Uusimaa area already during the surveillance in the early evening. In addition to alcohol, the police found electronic cigarettes, i.e. vape, in such a strength that it is a case of mild illegal importation, the release states.
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