Military officer fined for threatening conscript

A non-commissioned officer of Finnish army was fined for threatening a conscript to kill, local media reported.

The Satakunta District Court on Friday fined the officer, a corporal of the Pori Brigade to pay 80 income-linked day, amounting to a total of 1,360 euros for behaving in a racist and threatening manner, as well as a number of other offences, reported national broadcaster Yle.

According to the prosecutor, the convict had pointed an assault rifle at a conscript — who was under his command — and threatened to kill him two years ago at the Hämeenkankaan training area in the Satakunta region.

The 22-year-old convict had spoken in an unethical, humiliating, insulting or racist manner almost daily in front of other conscripts at his duty station in the Niinisalo garrison, Kankaanpää, said Yle, referring to Police report.

He also told others he thought Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was a "good guy", regularly used racist terms and said he believed that all immigrants should be killed.

The defendant during the investigation, however, said that he treated all conscripts equally, regardless of their background, colour or sexual orientation and denied the allegation of pointing a rifle at his subordinate.