Sex crime: A number of allegations of rape and sexual assault have been made against asylum-seekers around Finland, which have led to an anti-immigration feeling there. The day after Kempele, another girl, 14, was attacked in the southern town of Raisio, with police arresting a 19-year-old asylum-seeker. Two days later, an Afghan was jailed for raping a Finnish girl, 17, from Pori, and burning her alive.
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There is a sense of tension in the pretty, snow-covered Finnish town - an underlying fear which makes parents hold their children a little closer, and angry resentment towards the group of young men who arrived just a month ago.
Kempele, almost 400 miles north of Helsinki, is usually a place where 17,000 unassuming townfolk while away the hours playing ice hockey.
But that peaceful existence has been ripped apart by the rape of a 14-year-old girl as she walked home on a Monday night a fortnight ago.
The alleged culprit is one of the young men living at a migrant centre, which locals did not want in the first place.
But far from being an anomaly, Kempele - which saw hundreds take to the streets in an anti-immigration march last weekend - has become a snapshot of a country where people patrol the streets in vigilante mobs, block people crossing the border and even dress as the Ku Klux Klan at angry protests against the influx of refugees.
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In Kempele, the rape of the schoolgirl, just a fortnight after the centre for young migrants opened, sent shockwaves through the community.
Rumours quickly spread around the town that two asylum seekers from Afghanistan had been arrested over the assault.
It has since emerged that police have arrested a 17-year-old boy at the centre, who is in custody awaiting trial.
It was the spark needed for those who had opposed the centre in the first place to take to the streets - as hundreds turned out for a protest march demanding it be closed immediately.
'Finland for the Finns! Close down the centre!’ they chanted.
Furious: Anti-migration protesters with banners reading 'This is far from child's play' (left) and 'Close the borders, damn!'. In Kempele, in the north, residents took to the streets in protest at the unpopular hostel, 'Finland for the Finns! Close down the centre!’ they chanted.
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Fights, fury and the Ku Klux Klan: Finland faces wave of vigilante mobs targeting migrants as arrest of an Afghan asylum seeker for rape of 14-year-old schoolgirl pushes one town to the brink
In the town of Kempele, tension between locals and asylum seekers is rising after a 14-year-old girl was raped
Happened fortnight after youth migrant centre opened in town to mass opposition and 17-year-old refugee charged
Across Finland similar cases have sparked panic, with human chains blocking refugees at the country's borders
Even some MPs are demanding asylum seekers leave country and put an end to 'nightmare called multiculturalism'
By PEKKA LEIVISKA IN KEMPELE, FINLAND, FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 08:32 EST, 8 December 2015 | UPDATED: 11:26 EST, 8 December 2015
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