The Blue-and-Black Movement leader charged over anti-semitic tweet

The Blue-and-Black Movement got 0.1 percent of the vote, with 2,307 people choosing the party in the parliamentary elections last Sunday.

The leader of the openly racist and fascist Blue-and-Black Movement, Tuukka Kuru, has been charged over an anti-semitic tweet.

The charges were filed at Satakunta District Court in southwest Finland, and the case is due to be heard before the Midsummer holiday in late June.

The charge covers a tweet sent in 2020 in which Kuru commented on male circumcision, stating that “criminalisation of Judaism actually sounds quite good”.

Kuru told the Finnish News Agency STT that he denies the charges, and also confirmed to STT that a man suspected of terror offences by the National Bureau of Investigation in late March is a member of his party.

Kuru, a 33-year-old from Finnish Lapland, was a candidate in last week’s parliamentary elections, receiving 323 votes in the Uusimaa electoral district.

The Blue-and-Black Movement was formed in 2021 by individuals expelled from the Finns Party and its youth wing over their ethno-nationalist views. It was accepted into the official party registry last summer. They got 0.1 percent of the vote in last week’s parliamentary elections, with 2,307 people voting for them.

The party’s colours reference the far-right Lapua Movement, a 1930s organisation headquartered in the Ostrobothnian town of the same name, which attempted a coup d’état in 1932.