Five people suspected of "
planning a terrorist act
" are due to appear on Friday (December 3rd) before a judge in southwest Finland, Nordic police said.
The suspects were arrested on Tuesday and live in Kankaanpää, in the southwest of the country, police said.
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According to the Finnish television station MTV, they are five men and the suspicions are linked to explosives.
"
There is no imminent danger
," police said on Twitter.
Last March, Finnish intelligence Supo said the terrorist threat to the Nordic country of 5.5 million people was "
high
", the second lowest level on a scale of four.
They warned, however, that the risk associated with right-wing extremism was "
more worrying
" than the previous year.
Few of the arrests linked to terrorism in Finland.
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It was in 2018 that the terrorism charge was first retained, when a failed Moroccan asylum seeker, Abderrahman Bouanane, stabbed ten people, killing two, in the city of Turku (southwest) .
