Posted by: Matias on August 19, 2025, at 3:55 p.m.
There has been a death at the Parliament Building.
Parliament announced today that a member of Parliament committed suicide this morning on the premises of the Parliament Building.
The emergency dispatch center received a call about the incident around 11 a.m.
Iltalehti was the first to report on the incident. The member of Parliament who died at the Parliament Building was Eemeli Peltonen of the SDP, according to Iltalehti.
Peltonen was 30 years old at the time of his death.
Parliament is providing crisis support to its staff. Parliament is on summer recess, but members of Parliament are still present at the Parliament Building. Parliament will resume its fall session on September 2, 2025.
Member of Parliament Eemeli Peltonen (SDP) was 30 years old at the time of his death
The incident has also received attention abroad. In the United States, the news outlet Newsweek
In Sweden, both of the country’s evening newspapers, Aftonbladet and Expressen, as well as the public broadcaster SVT, reported on the incidents shortly after the Finnish media.
In the United Kingdom, the story has been covered by, among others, The Telegraph, the Daily Mail, and the Daily Star.
In Norway, the story has been covered by Dagbladet, among others, and in Estonia by the national broadcaster ERR.
Flags are flying at half-mast at the Finnish Parliament today.
Sources: Yle, Iltalehti, and Ilta-Sanomat