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European court: Finland failed to seize school shooter's gun

by Associated Press
| September 17, 2020 10:27 AM

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A European court ruled Thursday that Finnish authorities failed to perform their duty of diligence by not confiscating a 22-year-old man's gun before he had the chance to shoot and kill 10 people at a school, one of the worst homegrown attacks in the Nordic country’s history.

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