Finnish police detain YiuTube plotter

FINNISH police detained a teenager who allegedly posted a video on YouTube threatening a massacre similar to the one last week at a high school in Finland, police said.

The 16-year-old was arrested on Friday in Maaninka, about 400km north of Helsinki, and questioned yesterday, a local police spokesman said. Authorities also seized his computer.

Titled “Maaninka massacre”, the video is about 30 seconds long and shows the teenager's “school and a person with a weapon in hand”, the spokesman said.

“He says that it was a joke, that he had no intention” of carrying out a massacre, according to the spokesman.

The spokesman refused to comment on whether police had released the teenager, who remained under investigation for threats.

Eight people, including five boys aged 16 to 18, the 61-year-old headmistress, a 42-year-old female nurse and a 25-year-old single mother, were killed in Wednesday's shooting at Jokela High School in southern Finland.

The shooter, 18-year-old Pekka-Eric Auvinen, then turned the gun on himself and later died of his injuries.

Auvinen, too, had posted a video threat on the video-sharing website YouTube. Police on Friday said he had created the internet material two days before his attack.

Source: news.com.au