Tiina Wilén-Jäppinen (26 February 1963 – 4 December 2016) was a Finnish politician for the
Social Democratic Party
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Imatra
Imatra is a town and municipality in southeastern Finland. Imatra is dominated by Lake Saimaa, the Vuoksi River and the border with Russia. On the other side of the border, away from the centre of Imatra, lies the Russian town of Svetogorsk. ...
native, she served as a member of the city council for the municipality from 2001, and later as chairwoman of the city council from 2009 until her death. She was married with two children.
Wilén-Jäppinen was
shot and killed along with two journalists on 4 December 2016 at the Imatra shopping centre. She was 53.
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21st-century Finnish women politicians
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