ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A former Iraqi soldier suspected of involvement in a massacre that took place in the Iraqi city of Tikrit was detained in Finland, the Finnish police said on Friday. Ari Karvin, a police official told the Finnish MTV channel that the detainee, 23 suspected to have taken part in war crimes in Tikrirt was under police custody and a court hearing on his case will be held on Monday in southwestern Finland. He is the fourth Iraqi to be arrested in Finland for similar crimes. Three other Iraqis, two of them twins, were arrested by the Finnish police in December and November on charges of participating in the massacre of 1,700 Iraqi army cadets by the Islamic State (ISIS) in the summer of 2014. Speicher, 140 KM north of Baghdad, is the site of one of ISIS's most gruesome killings.
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