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Enligt Statistikcentralen fick 12 219 utländska medborgare som var fast bosatta i Finland finskt medborgarskap under år 2017. Antalet, som klart översteg föregående års rekord, är det största under självständighetstiden. Jämfört med år 2016 beviljades 2 844 fler personer finskt medborgarskap. Uttryckt i relativa tal ökade antalet med 30 procent från året innan.

In 2017, Finnish citizenship was granted by far most often to citizens of Russia, numbering 2,758 among those having been granted Finnish citizenship. This was 730 more than in the year before. Somali citizens were the second largest group of recipients of Finnish citizenship, numbering 957. The third most Finnish citizenships were granted to citizens of Iraq, 742 and the fourth most to Estonian citizens, 705.

Interior minister Kai Mykkänen said Finland’s police needs more resources in the suburbs to prevent the kind of youth violence currently afflicting Sweden.

Pre-emptive work by the police in the suburbs will help prevent social problems that in turn lead to gang violence, the conservative National Coalition Party politician said on Yle’s Aamu-tv morning chat show on Thursday.
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On the other hand, Mykkänen mentions the Varissuo suburb in Turku, south-west Finland, as an example where the security situation has remained good despite rapid demographic changes.

“The population of Varissuo has changed quickly in recent times. Now, more than half of the residents speak foreign languages [as their native tongue], as do 60 percent of the children in Varissuo’s 1,200-pupil school” Mykkänen said.

Thanks to a local police officer who works with teenagers, religious communities, social workers and child protection services, organised crime or gang violence has not taken root in Varissuo, Mykkänen said.

Due to these positive results, the interior ministry has increased support for so-called “anchor teams” in other Finnish cities where a group consisting of different authorities help young people before they become marginalised.

Heikkinen är oroad över situationen och pekar på händelserna i Sverige.

- När mycket folk med en viss bakgrund kommer till samma områden, då borde man ta itu med saken gemast och inte i morgon, så att det inte går som i Rinkleby, kräver Heikkinen.