Protesters have shut down a reading of political propaganda organised by the racist and fascist Blue-Black movement at a library in central Helsinki.
Chants of "Helsinki without Nazis" and "the far right kills" were heard at Oodi library, as demonstrators also made peace signs and held up books including Hannah Arendt's "The Origins of Totalitarianism" to stop the reading circle.
Yle's reporter on the scene estimated there were around 40-50 people attending the Blue-Black reading circle, and many times that number protesting against them.
Security guards said that around 400-500 people were at the library in total.
By 13:15, the far-right attendees had decided to end their reading circle and leave the library.
Library director Anna-Maria Soininvaara asked the counter-protesters to quieten down at that point, or leave the library too.
The event was called for Independence Day by the Blue-Black movement, which was removed from Finland's register of political parties earlier this year because of its anti-democratic political programme.
Helsinki does not allow bookings of its premises from groups aimed at undermining the UN's International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination, but because the group did not reserve any private spaces, the city's lawyers said they were unable to prohibit the event.
Anti-fascists immediately called on people to attend the library at the same time to prevent the event taking place.
The Left Alliance youth wing's southern Finland chapter reserved a room at the library to read The Far Right in Finland, a book published in 2013 detailing many of the key figures in extremist politics in Finland.