Three African-American players from the Lappeenranta-based Finnish American Football League team Rajaritarit are suspected of rape.
According to the club, the players have been in police custody since Monday of last week.
“The matter came to me as a total surprise. We have made an effort to provide support to our players through the entire process”, explains Rajaritarit chairman Juho Ritala.
According to Ritala, the suspected deed would have happened in the residence of the players in question on Sunday night nearly two weeks ago. The men were taken into custody on Thursday of last week, Ritala says.
The police have not issued any statements with regard to the suspected crime. Eventually the Rajaritarit team decided to make the announcement themselves.
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“There seem to be a lot of speculations circulating around in a town of this size. Many people seem to believe they know quite a bit about what has happened. So we decided to come forward with what we know.”
Ritala points out that so far it is merely a question of suspicion of criminal action, albeit a serious charge.
“Let the police do their investigation. In due course they will issue a statement”, Ritala told the Finnish News Agency STT on Thursday.
At the end of last season Rajaritarit – the name translates loosely as “Border Knights” in keeping with Lappeenranta’s position close to the Russian border – won promotion back to the Finnish top league.
The team has four American players, one of whom, Thomas Kudyba, is not suspected of any wrongdoing.
The team’s other American players arrived in Lappeenranta during the spring and the summer, the last one at the very end of July.
The team will play its last game of the regular season on Saturday. Rajaritarit have already made it to the play-offs.
“I doubt the boys will make it to the Saturday game. As far as I know their next hearing will not take place until Monday. Kudyba is our only foreign reinforcement on Saturday.”
Ritala hopes the team will be given some peace and quiet to prepare for the coming games.
The American Football Association of Finland (SAJL) information officer Tomi Tiilikainen regards the incident as very unfortunate.
“I have never heard of anything like this before during the twenty or so years that I have been involved in the sport. In time we will find out what has happened. In the meantime neither the association nor the team can do anything”, Tiilikainen commented on Thursday.
Finland’s Vaahteraliiga (“Maple League”) consists of eight teams, with the top four at the end of the regular season advancing to the play-offs.

30,000 rapes a year on White women by black men. Rapes on black women by white men: Virtually zero.
In Finland for example in Espoo 70 % of rapists are immigrants (refugees, legal or illegal migrants etc.) and tourists usually from Irak, Iran, Turkey, Somalia, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan and Nigeria, which are all Islamic countries. And the rest 30% may very well be also immigrants, who have gotten Finnish citizenship. After that they are reported in news and everywhere as Finns. Even kids who are born in Finland, but whose parents are from Islamic countries, usually turns out to be just like their parents.
They all got sentenced for 1 year and 8 months in prison for gang raping TWO under 20 year old girls and have to compensate 4,500 euros to both of the victims. Too bad all three rapists are already in the US since they were released at one point and nobody thought of putting a travel ban on them. We doubt they’ll ever be transferred back to Finland to serve their sentences.
One girl is 19-year-old Timothy Sanders of Ashburn, Va., and the other one is a 18-year-old.
The court system has treated the Finish rape victims like prostitutes. Here is 4500 euros for what happened and we’re not going to punish them because they just forgot to pay up front.
Most of the corrupt media from Finland censored the rapists and described them as “Americans” so that no one will know that they are actually African-Americans. Just an example: Ilta-Sanomat.
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i guess its not color. Its not about black or white, red or yellow. It´s about Islam against the west.
isso é culpas desses negros devem ser extintos !
This site is hilarious, these comments are hilarious in context because you just can’t believe that people can be so dumb, racist,bigoted, an dsexist all rolled into one. I could not for the life of me take these commmetns seriously. I mean really? God should hurry up and bring on the apocalypse, and we would see who is correct in mindset.
Okay, this article is about 4 years old. Interestingly, I saw a week ago on TV chanel france24, that the Fins love to go to Africa and adopt black orphans. Okay, not only Fins do that, but the info was that apparently, it’s becoming fashionable in Finland.
Is it possible to be smart enough to build Nokia phones while stupid enough to raise your future enemy within your own borders ?
Yes it is possible to be smart at one thing and stupid at another thing ! I suppose that most if not all of the inter racial marriages in Finland are between white Finnish women and black/brown African or mid-eastern men ? Why are Finnish whites adopting young black African children fashionable ?
Wait for me Finland.
@Mohamad Jabbar Takkar Fakkar El-Huseyni de la Francious. What do you mean by “Wait for for me Finland” ? Are you interested in traveling to Finland to do what these three African-American men did to two Finnish women ? Are you going to bring a few Muslim men with you and gang rape a young white Finnish woman like those three Somalian men are doing in that animated billboard in an African town ? Is that what you mean by “wait for me Finland” ? Are you that horny to want to travel to Finland and enjoy having your way (rape) with a young white Finnish woman ? So you are more than willing to pay for your own airfare and other cost of traveling for half a day to Finland just to enjoy a sexual encounter with a young white Finnish woman (against her will )just so that you can enjoy masturbating inside her pussy ? What’s the matter with your own young Muslim women and girls Mohamad Jabbar Takkar Fakkar El-Huseyni de la Francois ? I bet that you could have more sexual pleasure with your own brown skin young virgin Muslim women and girls !
u can do it in sweden
You can do it with impunity if you are a Muslim man!
“…lastly because they feel their female counterparts are overweight and very homely in appearance. It is fact whether you agree or not.” I guess you never really noticed the recent fluctuation of AM-WM/BW videos on YouTube? L-)
“And the rest 30% may very well be also immigrants, who have gotten Finnish citizenship”
So there is not a single rape in Finland committed by a Finn? From someone working in the prison system in Finland, I see a very different picture.
@Jarmo.What is the picture that you see ? FYI,I’m an African-American man like those three U.S. black football players.I first read about this rape over two years ago ! What has happened to those three American football players since they were released from Finnish court ? Are there still Muslim men raping Finnish women to this day ? I have heard about a Finnish patriot,Henrik Holappa ! How is he doing ?
The main reason white men do not rape black women aside from the fact it is morally wrong, is that most black women are about as homely as they come. Sorry, but that is the reality of the race. Black men admit they are attracted to white women for two reasons, the thrill and the conquest of having something that has been frowned upon and lastly because they feel their female counterparts are overweight and very homely in appearance. It is fact whether you agree or not.
@Reality Calling.FYI,I’m a 56 year old African-American man and I can agree with you all day long ! There are always going to be a few exceptions to the rule ! I have to admit,I’m attracted to young (18 to 40 ) year old white women that take care of their bodies and don’t have any fake body parts ! When you get a chance,google “Kink” they are based in an old armory in San Francisco at 14 th and mission streets ! These are the kind of white women that I find attractive an interesting !
According to the US department of Justice in 2009…
In the USA…
35,832 rapes of white women by black men.
2 rapes of black women by white men.
Staggering.
Those facts look pretty accurate, I bet if at least a hundred black women where raped by white men. The mainstream media would be all over it and there would be a revolution.
If that were to happened,I would expect the race hustlers to be chanting no justice,no peace ! I would be very happy to hear of those one hundred negro women getting pregnant by horny white men ! That should be good for racial diversity !
ken says that “98% of all violent crime in America is perpetrated by blacks.” seriously, dude. you are an imbecile. i heard blacks committed 130% percent of all crimes. (look up ‘percentages’ on wikipedia or something in order to get this joke.)
by the way, by american standards, there is nothing to report. there is no evidence, and barely an accusation. apparently in finland they can detain you on even slight suspicion.
Chris, you are factually misaligned with regards to the number of rapes committed by blacks against whites and vis versa. The DOJ stopped publicly classifying the race of the perpetrator of violent crimes, including rape several years ago because the information was to condemning of blacks. you can however email the DOJ and request the information directly. I did, and it was revealing. 98% of all violent crime in America is perpetrated by blacks. It is unfortunate that the overwhelming majority of those crimes are against other blacks, it is equally unfortunate that the media, liberals, and the black community refuses to have an honest dialogue about these issues and instead focuses on the unbalanced racial profile of our prison populations. You are welcome to disagree with the facts, but for GD’s sake, find some of them before you form an opinion. Or, for the rest of our benefit avoid voting whenever possible.
Ken,you are a boldface lie. Whites commit 60% of ALL CRIMES in the US according to the FBI https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013/tables/table-43#disablemobile
It’s no wonder United States of America is the leading country economically, culturally, technologically, socially etc. After reading the comments here, it’s very clear that a majority of Europeans are quite literally closed-minded, completely bigoted people. They treat racial conflicts and issues like a “team based” game. They treat it as black and white. Truly disgusting feeling I get from reading such stupid comments from everyone here.
Stop treating Europe as if it, somehow, metaphysically belongs only to you. Technology is booming, traveling and immigration will continue to grow exponentially… if you can’t grasp the reality of that, you’re probably better off killing yourselves, as times are changing, the world is changing etc. – harsh, but true. I think it’s hilarious how if a European raped another European, they’d treat the issue much, much less seriously – as if race changes anything.
Alex, I don’t live in Finland, but if I saw a big billboard from Africa that basically condones rape and advices their citizens to enter my country as a refugee, just so they could rape me, yes I would take it a bit personal.
I’m sure you like to point your fingers at others and call them bigots and ignorant racists, but you’re probably the type who lives in an all-white, crime-free neighborhood and sends your kids to a private school, where they see nothing but white kids. Practice what you preach. If you want diversity so bad, go buy yourself a really cheap house in Detroit and tell your Detroit neighbors to love one another in harmony. If you’d be willing to do that, just let me know what hospital you’ll be at, so I’ll know where to send the flowers when you are put inside the intensive care unit!
You libtards are nothing but enablers and coddlers. FYI, blacks are more racist than other races are. They don’t care if you are for them or against them. They’ll hurt you just as quick! L-)
Great….another brainwashed redneck…..Slavery took place where again ??!! Ah yeah the US…..stfu !!
This is by far one of the most ethnically bias articles I’ve ever read on the internet. This is truly ridiculous. I’d be willing to bet their is a high (if not higher) amount of black women who get raped by white men. For you to throw out statistics like “virtually zero” speaks volumes about your real intentions for writing this poorly written “article”.
I’m quite embarrassed and overwhelmingly disappointed with what you’ve typed up here.
Chris, you must be black. Only black men say that white men rape their African-American women. 8-| In your dreams! I mean really??? When does it ever happen in present time?? You blacks say it happened during slavery times, but that time is not now. And there is no true proof of it ever happening in the past. White men probably had more black mistresses than anything. It makes more sense, because the white men had the money and the black women wanted out of the cotton fields. The sex between the two was probably, more than likely, consensual.
If white men do rape black women in present day, like you say, well then why aren’t the black women reporting it? Why isn’t it in the newspapers? Oh something like that would be in ALL the papers. It’s not reported, BECAUSE IT’S NOT HAPPENING!!! The rape cases that are being reported are from black men. All this past summer, I have been hearing about how young black men were raping white elderly women. Not even young, attractive white women, but OLD HAGS!! WTF?! One woman was 77 years old and another one was in her 80’s. Care to explain that? Call me a racist, I don’t give a rat’s ass. Raping old, helpless white women is a black thang. I’ve never heard of three Asian guys breaking into an old woman’s house and raping her. I don’t think the white boys are even into that.
Well, while you are obsessed with blacks and browns, yellows (mostly Chinese and Korean) are gradually taking over the world including the west. Believe or not they are the most racist and don’t give a shit about you and your culture.
Wow
I recently found out that my family immigrated from Finland and was googling Finland. Im shocked to see that Finnish people are a bunch of racists. This article is the evidence. I have Finnish ancestors and black African family in the USA. In the USA we have many races, but I will never let my children nor my family entertain the idea of visiting Finland again. This is so disheartening, but part of me is not surprised. I certainly won’t go bragging that I have Finnish grandparents anymore.