Lawmaker Timo Vornanenwas was sentenced to eight months suspended imprisonment on Friday for the shooting incident took place outside a nightclub in Helsinki in April 2024.
The Helsinki District Court awarded the punishment as the allegations of assault, unlawful threats and various firearms offences brought against the former leader of the radical rightist Perussuomalaiset (Finns Party) were proved beyond doubt, local media reported.
Vornanen, a 54-year man, elected MP from Joensuu, engaged into an altercation with an employee of the night club and at certain stage he came outside of the night club and fired gunshot into the ground with his small-caliber firearm.
Before the firing Vornanen also pointed the barrel of the gun at the people present on the spot and the people left the scene after the firing.
Earlier on May 13, Perussuomalaiset expelled Vornanen from the party.
On May 2, Timo Vornanen was expelled from the parliamentary group of the party.
Later he formed a new parliamentary group after his own name.
The MP was initially suspected of three criminal charges for his involvement in the shooting incident.
The MP was arrested on April 26 and released on April 27.
Vornanen discharged his duty as a senior police constable at the Eastern Finland Police Department for more than 20 years before being elected a lawmaker from Perussuomalaiset in 2023 and now on leave for the parliamentary term.
- MP
- Imprisonment
- Nightclub
- Shooting
Source: www.dailyfinland.fi
