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About ten years ago, the town of Espo, Finland, had a problem with thousands of young people gathering on the beaches and committing crimes, some of them very serious crimes.
Inspector Hannu Vananen had an idea to stop it.
Can you tell us about that?
Yes.
In Finland, in central Finland, they had used classical music in a shopping mall.
The youth didn't like the classical music, so they evaded it.
And then I'm a little Odin in this.
Police destroy our superiors that should we try to play the classical music at the beach?
And we played it.
Usually they gather there around 06:00 p.m.
or 07:00 p.m.