Far right, anti-fascists protest in Finland a year after knife attack

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Far right, anti-fascists protest in Finland a year after knife attack
Reuters Staff

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Supporters of the far right and anti-fascists staged rival marches on Saturday in the city of Turku, the scene of Finland’s first militant Islamist attack a year ago.

Abderrahman Bouanane, a failed Moroccan asylum seeker who had seen himself as a soldier for Islamic State, stabbed two women to death and wounded eight other people in Turku’s main square on Aug. 18, 2017.

About 300 supporters of the Nordic Resistance Movement, a far-right group the Finnish intelligence service says aims to create a national socialist state, marched through the city center on Saturday waving flags.

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