2016 Helsinki Asema-aukio assault

The 2016 Helsinki Asema-aukio assault happened on 10 September 2016, when Jesse Tornianen, a member of the Finnish Resistance Movement, a Neo-Nazi organisation, attacked a passer-by who had argued with the demonstrators and spit on them with a jumping kick. Because of the kick, the 28-year-old Jimi Joonas Karttunen fell down, hit his head to the street and suffered a cerebral haemorrhage. Karttunen was rushed to the Töölö Hospital, which he later left despite the hospital staff's recommendation to stay at the hospital. He died about a week after the assault on 16 September 2016 at the Meilahti Hospital. The perpetrator had a criminal background.

On 30 December 2016, the district court gave Torniainen a sentence of two years in prison without parole for severe assault. The court did not see that there would be a connection between Karttunen's death and the jumping kick, so the charge of severe manslaughter was dismissed. The prosecutor appealed this to the court of appeals, who raised Tornianen's sentence to two years and three months in prison. The court based this on Torniainen's racist motive.