About two hundred people participated today in a youth demonstration in the street (Youth for the Streets) in the center of Helsinki.
The protest is part of an international wave of protests, organizers said in a press release.
The demonstration was largely peaceful, police said. One person was arrested for using pyrotechnics. In addition, the marchers threw paint at some windows.
According to the police, the organizers did not announce the demonstration in advance. Yle reporter Marie Janetti, who is on the scene, reports that there is still a large police presence at the scene.
The demonstrators criticize, among other things, the increase in the cost of living, the government cuts, the reduction of educational opportunities and poor job prospects.
The demonstration was organized by a group of politically active youth, as well as the communist group Aurora Helsinki, the left-wing anti-capitalist group Amelia and the student movement Students Against Surgery (Students Against Cuts).