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Binga Tupamäki wrote that the events in France were finally treated as riots rather than peaceful student protests, but he criticized the media coverage as still having a strange tone. According to him, Helsingin Sanomat suggested that the videos circulating from the riots promoted the far-right agenda and emphasized that the involvement of immigrants could not yet be confirmed. Tupamäki asked why the editorial teams were hesitant in this case, even though they had previously speculated on matters before official confirmations. He believed that comments from Donald Trump and Sebastian Tynkkynen should not become main news stories instead of the violence, and called for a deeper analysis of the causes and consequences of the events. According to Tupamäki, contemplating the connection between immigration failure and social unrest does not make a person far-right. He referred to the decades-long discussion in France about the segregation of suburbs and the problems of integration, and assessed that there were no common norms or respect in an increasingly unequal environment. He urged an examination of the role of the radical left and claimed that the streets of France were primarily places of rioting for the far left. Tupamäki mentioned that Greta Thunberg participated in the protest and praised students for rising against the system, even though he claimed there were no concrete demands. He assessed that the unrest was more related to revolutionary fantasies than to a shortage of teachers and budget cuts. According to Tupamäki, the rigid reporting by Helsingin Sanomat and other media ironically benefited the far-right: if people saw videos and heard that only far-right individuals thought about the conclusions drawn from them, they might begin to identify with it. He considered honest and fair reporting as a means to prevent radicalization. #Ranska #mellakat #media (translated)

Sammallahti wrote that the Finnish left, in his opinion, had remained silent about the riots in France. He claimed that masked antifascists had waved Palestinian flags, set major cities on fire, looted stores, and assaulted bystanders. Sammallahti assessed that the left's reaction would have been stronger if there had been features interpreted as right-wing in the riots. Sammallahti also claimed that in Finland, antifascist actors operated particularly under the protection of the Left Alliance and the Greens, and had organized events such as Kuokkavieraat, Smash ASEM, Kiakkovieraat, and Makasiinimellakat, as well as the Luokkaretki lähiöst linnaan event and the activities of Extinction Rebellion. According to him, the connections of far-left groups to current politics had not been investigated in Finland because there had been no lustration and the media had a sympathetic attitude towards the left. He added that leftist politicians had sometimes carried symbols of violent extremist groups and that some of the event organizers had advanced to influential political positions. Sammallahti hoped that leftist politicians would autonomously condemn the actions of their like-minded peers. He believed that the violence of the far-left should be prevented rather than understood, using soft and, if necessary, hard means. https://t.co/CXoRZ8GE6X https://t.co/YStFgDHL6U https://t.co/6EQpCOTZAo https://t.co/OOq0ayZ4Ou #vasemmisto #mellakat #antifasismi (translated)

Miikka Landen wrote that the media's way of viewing the far right, for example in ties, animals, and The Lord of the Rings movies, was due to the same reason as the media's difficulty in using the term far left in connection with extreme violence. He claimed that the media is part of the left. https://t.co/MHkMS92tQO #media #äärioikeisto #politiikka (translated)

The Day's Bureaucrat claimed that Helsingin Sanomat was irritated that it could no longer decide where Finns got their information. According to him, the newspaper's editorial team was not concerned about the riots of violent leftist and Islamist groups, but rather that reporting on them could increase support for the far right and anti-immigration sentiments. The Day's Bureaucrat also wrote that the editorial leadership had backgrounds in, among others, Kansan Uutiset and the Ydin magazine published by the Peace Committee and the Peace League, and described these backgrounds as communist. He also criticized fact-checking and considered it the lowest quality he had seen. #suomi #media #tiedotus (translated)

According to the author, the structures explained why the terrain was dry, but did not explain who started the fire. He wrote that the riots in France had detached from their original framework and that, according to the authorities, far-left groups were organizing violence that opportunists followed. The author also referred to a violent revolution and shared a link. https://t.co/emjGlYi136 #Ranska #mellakat #väkivalta #FR (translated)

Matti Molari asked where Yle found the individuals it was discussing. He described anarchists and the black bloc as far-left and said that anarchists were as far-left as possible. Molari called Yle dangerous and claimed it was trying to cover up the reality so that people would go down the wrong path like in France. https://t.co/yCC04Yj3xp #Yle #äärivasemmisto #anarkismi (translated)

Elina Hiltunen criticized HS's reporting as disgraceful and wrote that images were created through propaganda. She noted that lies were also circulating on the right, but according to her, the riots were officially stated to be partially orchestrated by the far left. #propaganda #mielikuvat #uutisointi (translated)

Sanna Antikainen wrote to Heidi Hagelin that she was at a loss for words and claimed that nearly a thousand police officers had been injured. She asked if Hagelin knew that police officers were also people and whether their injuries pleased her. Antikainen also asked if Hagelin was planning to incite Finland's far-left to similar actions next, and whether Taloussanomat and Ilta-Sanomat would offer a platform to their journalist. #Suomi #Poliisi #Uutiset (translated)

Onni Rostila wrote that the French government specifically accused the far left of inciting riots and violence. He urged people to assess for themselves what kind of group was rampaging in the streets and criticized Yle's reporting on the youth protests, as well as Helsingin Sanomat's talk of the far right. Rostila found the reporting to be contradictory. https://t.co/rgtFE1A7ox #Ranska #Mellakat #Politiikka (translated)

Jari Sarasvuo criticized Heidi Hagelin's comment and described it as lacking in an understanding of reality. According to him, every sentence of the comment was wrong, and he questioned how such actions could build a better future and society. Sarasvuo wrote that there had been violent riots in France, businesses had been looted, and buildings burned practically every year. He mentioned that he had requested a list starting from 2005 and assessed that the situation had worsened in the last 10 years. According to him, those participating in the riots largely lived on the funds of current and future taxpayers. Sarasvuo stated that violence, terrorism, and looting could not be justified by the fact that people who could pay taxes were not being forced to pay even more for unearned benefits. He also claimed that the far left had initially taken student protests organized for legitimate reasons and turned them to political use, and that there was plenty of information available on the subject. In the end, Sarasvuo expressed disappointment in Hagelin and thanked her for the good moments shared together. #Ranska #mellakka #yhteiskunta (translated)

Elina Hiltunen criticized the right for the lack of source criticism on social media and wrote that images unrelated to the events in France were associated with them, as well as unfounded stories. She described the situation in France as horrific and claimed that the far-left, Islamists, and gangs were collaborating destructively. According to Hiltunen, the spread of false information harmed her own side and benefited the opposing side, so she urged checking the facts before sharing. #totuus #lähdekritiikki #faktantarkistus (translated)

Sammallahti wrote that Greta Thunberg had said in France that young people were rising in rebellion because the system, in her view, was in conflict with human rights and humanity. Sammallahti interpreted that based on Thunberg's previous speeches, she meant Western market economy and democracy. Sammallahti suggested that the University of Helsinki could study the mass psychosis he described that has spread in the West. He claimed it had raised Thunberg to a cult-like status and said that the media, the academic world, and the left had tried to pressure even whole nation-states to yield to her will. He described Thunberg as far-left and accused her of deceit. https://t.co/6fSmoZpzW1 #ilmastonmuutos #nuorisokapina #demokratia (translated)

According to the author, Caroline Fourest, described as a liberal feminist, had addressed how the leader of France's far-left party, Mélenchon, had changed his political strategy, abandoned secularism, and allied himself with Islamists. #feminismi #Ranska #politiikka #FR (translated)

Dystocracy wrote that they found the news about the far-left riots coming from France ideologically unpleasant and described that Yle provided in contrast a panic news story about raccoons for the day. They sarcastically hinted that this time the entity labeled as Nazis was Åland. https://t.co/yfG3fXc4Kb https://t.co/HR4esUK4F5 #Suomi #uutiset #politiikka (translated)

Okkonen wrote that the Security Police had told MOT that their warning was based on a report from the Swedish anti-racist Expo Foundation. He found it problematic that, according to him, the Security Police had obtained their information from an extreme left-wing propaganda channel and claimed that leftists were doing mole work within the agency. https://t.co/HvPb43IUak #Suojelupoliisi #antirasismi #politiikka (translated)