Kursiivi printing house arson

Kursiivi printing house arson was an arson that took place the early morning of 26 November 1977 that destroyed the printing house Kursiivi in Helsinki in Lauttasaari. Kursiivi printed the newspaper of the Taistoist wing of the Communist Party of Finland "Tiedonantaja", the Swedish language communist newspaper "Arbetartidningen Enhet" and SKDL youth wing's "Pioneeritoveri".
A homemade bomb was also found in the printing house, which, however, had not had time to explode. In addition, the exterior walls of the building had been defaced with swastikas. Police arrested a man suspected of setting fire on December 9. The left called on the state to take action against the far right because of the incident. The case and its litigation also attracted attention abroad.
Members of the neo-nazi party Patriotic People's Front were convicted of arson, including Pekka Siitoin, known as a neo-Nazi and occultist , party secretary Seppo Lehtonen, Timo Pekkala and two people from Kotka.