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Add as preferred source on GoogleFinnish police ruled out political and racial motives in the Tampere stabbing incident, where a 23-year-old man injured four people randomly.
HELSINKI (Reuters) -Finnish police said on Friday a man held over a stabbing attack in the southwestern city of Tampere on Thursday in which four people were injured told them he had no racist or political motive for the deed and had attacked people randomly.
Police said the suspect, who was arrested shortly after the deed near a shopping mall in Finland's third-biggest city, was a 23-year-old Finnish man with a previous criminal history.
"He states that he has no racist or terrorist motive whatsoever in this matter. He did not know these victims beforehand, nor does he remember whom he stabbed," Detective Chief Inspector Sakari Tuominen said.
"When asked why he committed such an act, the perpetrator says that all people are enemies. Everyone is watching him. People get what they deserve. Everyone is the same evil mass against him," Tuominen told a press conference.
Police said the victim's injuries were serious. Three of the victims are female, aged 40, 52 and 35 respectively, while the fourth is a man aged 35.
(Reporting by Anne Kauranen, writing by Louise Breusch Rasmussen, editing by Anna Ringstrom, William Maclean)
The suspect claimed he had no racist or terrorist motive and did not know the victims beforehand.
Four people were injured in the stabbing attack, with three being female and one male.
The suspect is a 23-year-old Finnish man with a previous criminal history.
The police reported that the victims sustained serious injuries from the attack.
The stabbing incident took place near a shopping mall in Tampere, Finland's third-largest city.
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