{"id":874562,"date":"2025-09-21T01:13:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T06:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/21\/mp-who-took-his-own-life-in-finnish-parliament-is-pictured\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T01:13:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T06:13:22","slug":"mp-who-took-his-own-life-in-finnish-parliament-is-pictured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/21\/mp-who-took-his-own-life-in-finnish-parliament-is-pictured\/","title":{"rendered":"MP who &#8216;took his own life&#8217; in Finnish parliament is pictured"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"main\">\n<div>\n<p>A Finnish MP has taken their own life inside the country\u2019s parliament, local media outlets have reported.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Eemeli Peltonen, 30, was found dead in the building on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Finnish paper <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iltalehti.fi\/politiikka\/a\/2b5869a0-bbee-4e04-847f-9728570d527a\">Iltalehti<\/a> said the politician had died at around 11am.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Emergency services including paramedics were reported to have attended the parliament after receiving a call.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>An ambulance, two police vehicles and a fire engine attended the scene, broadcaster Yle said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>However, there is said to be no suspicion of foul play.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A security official declined to provide further details, saying: \u201cThere is a mission underway, with rescue authorities, police and emergency services on site. I cannot say more than that at this stage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cI can&#8217;t say what the emergency response from the emergency center has been. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cParliament is a bit of an exceptional site, so one could imagine that such things have been considered when the situation has been unclear.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>He did not deny reports that the cause of death was suicide.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The country\u2019s prime minister, Petteri Orpo, said in a statement that politics would be suspended following the announcement and observed a moment of silence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>He said: \u201cSome time ago, we received truly shocking news from Parliament, our shared workplace. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cOne of our colleagues has died in the parliamentary premises. This is very sad news.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>He added: \u201cAt the same time, we send strength to the family, loved ones and colleagues. This deeply affects all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/world\/mp-finnish-parliament-building-b1243571.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Finnish MP has taken their own life inside the country\u2019s parliament, local media outlets have reported. Eemeli Peltonen, 30, was found dead in the building on Tuesday. Finnish paper Iltalehti said the politician had died at around 11am. Emergency services including paramedics were reported to have attended the parliament after receiving a call. An<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":874563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133318,29957],"tags":[6962,5982],"class_list":{"0":"post-874562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-took","8":"category-life","9":"tag-life","10":"tag-took"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}