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Chapter I. The Airport Robbery — Kidnapped Children at Helsinki Airport
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Why are China and Finland working together to try to permanently silence an American journalist?
Because they desperately want to bury the Truth about the child trafficking network moving through the Helsinki (HEL) Airport's rental car parking garage.
"Child abductions are a big problem in China," the BBC reports.
"Finland is mainly a country of transit and [a] destination for victims of sex trafficking and forced labor," writes Sari Latomaa in the Intercultural Human Rights Law Review.
What better place to traffic kidnapped children than via strategic blind spots in your tiny country's international airport?
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Kidnapped Children at Helsinki Airport — The Human Trafficking Network China and Finland are Desperate to Hide.
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Why are China and Finland working together to try to permanently silence an American journalist?
Because they desperately want to bury the Truth about the child trafficking network moving through the Helsinki (HEL) Airport's rental car parking garage.
"Child abductions are a big problem in China," the BBC reports.
"Finland is mainly a country of transit and [a] destination for victims of sex trafficking and forced labor," writes Sari Latomaa in the Intercultural Human Rights Law Review.
What better place to traffic kidnapped children than via strategic blind spots in your tiny country's international airport?
I. THE AIRPORT ROBBERY
‘HEL Airport's rental car parking garage is fairly modern. So why…'
I wondered, after I was robbed by professional thieves inside that garage the very day I arrived in Finland in October 2024.
‘...is there a glaring absence of security cameras inside the belly of this garage; where the rental cars are parked?’
Not just a glaring absence, but a deliberate one.
Per interviews with employees working at rental car companies operating inside that garage, numerous requests had been made to install security cameras in the main parking area.
All of those requests were ignored or denied.
"We have asked multiple times for permission to install security cameras in our section, and every time we're told it's not possible," said one rental car employee, on condition of anonymity.
There is a bevy of cameras inside HEL Airport and along its exterior roads and walkways.
But not in the belly of that rental car parking garage, which has a secret rear exit where cars can come and go unnoticed.
There is also a national police station at HEL Airport, just a short walk from the parking garage. There is heavy police officer presence in that station, which I witnessed in person.
Yet, that did not deter professional thieves from driving away with my luggage, in broad daylight, from that parking garage with no inner cameras.
‘How could they be so brazen? So bold?’
Well, because they knew they would be shielded and protected by HEL's airport police force.
Which is exactly what happened in October 2024. Days later, when the thieves returned to the garage to flee the country, I caught them red-handed with my stolen items. Then, as they tried to scurry into the airport for their international flight, I had them detained by private security forces until the police arrived.
I and other witnesses were shocked and horrified when HEL's police officers moved swiftly and decisively to free the criminals and help them escape.
All while Officer Timo Luoto and his police squad tried to scare and intimidate me, the victim.
After the robbery, I spent many long hours in that parking garage, by day and in the near-freezing darkness of night.
At no point did I ever see a single patrol car, or police officer, or security guard patrolling the area.
Not a single one.
Moreover, every time I asked the airport police to check airport security footage of the professional thieves' movements into and out of that garage...
All of my verbal and written requests were ignored or denied.
A rental car parking garage... at Finland's sole international airport... with no inner cameras allowed... and no security guards or police officers on patrol... where professional thieves feel no fear... because they know they will be shielded and protected by Finland's national police department at the highest levels.
Suffice it to say, my journalistic alarm bells knew there was something rotten afoot in Finland.
Something far more rotten, sinister and evil than petty thievery.
