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Currently, two brothers are on trial in Porvoo, Finland.
They are suspected of 13 cases of attempted murder and of having shot two policemen.
The trial has been suspended because the prosecutor failed to prosecute both men for police assassination attempts, according to Yle.
Two Swedish brothers, written in the Stockholm area, are currently on trial in Finland.
They are suspected of a total of 13 assassination attempts.
According to the investigation, they had to shoot two policemen, among other things.
The prosecutor in the case, Laura Saarinen, claims that the brothers have tried to trap the police, to steal their weapons and equipment and shoot them.
Photo: Police
The suspect siblings are posted in the Stockholm area.
He used the police as a human shield
The crime took place in Ölstens, west of Porvoo, during the night of August 24-25, 2019.
According to the prosecutor Saarinen, one of the men called the emergency center and stated that he and his brother had arrested a suspected car thief in an industrial area of Ölstens for a single man.
A police patrol was dispatched to the scene.
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The suspects are said to have simulated an alarm call.
When the policemen got out of the radio car, they were immediately threatened by one of the brothers who raised his gun.
One of the policemen was taken hostage by the brothers who used the police as a human shield, according to the police investigation.
A brother is said to have pressed the gun to the policeman’s head and neck and threatened to kill him.
Photo: Police
Drone image of the police of the industrial zone.
Shot in the back
In relation to the brothers who tried to force a reinforcement weapon that was in the patrol car radio, the police officer managed to free himself from the grasp of one of the brothers.
He was then shot twice in the back, but his bulletproof vest stopped the bullets.
The other policeman was shot in the arm.
The brothers managed to escape from the Ölstens industrial zone after the shooting drama and the police began an intense search for them.
The operation lasted almost a day.
Shortly after 8 p.m. on Sunday night, August 25, they were arrested after a long car chase.
Photo: Police
One of the suspects points a finger at a gas station.
Denies the crime
During the chase, the brothers fired about twenty shots at the police and drove at more than 150 kilometers per hour, according to police testimony in the preliminary report.
Parts of the hunt were captured by surveillance cameras.
Prosecutor Laura Saarinen believes that the brothers intended to kill the police officers.
The brothers deny it, but admit the crime with firearms and violent opposition to the official, according to Yle.
In other respects, they should not have been more involved in the investigation. To most of the questions from the interrogators, they answered “no comment” or sat quietly.
Following the prosecutor’s error in the accusation, the trial has been postponed for ten days.
Photo: Kalle Parkkinen
Arrest after police shooting in Ölstens, Finland
Photo: Kalle Parkkinen
The policemen who were shot in Ölstens were taken to a Helsinki hospital.
Photo: Kalle Parkkinen
The police work during the police operation.
Photo: Roni Rekomaa / Lehtikuva / AP
Police were shot in an industrial area of Porvoo.
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