Finland has recently been awarded the happiest country in the world for the seventh year in a row, but this achievement clashes with a tragic shooting incident that unfolded at Viertola school in Vantaa city, part of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area. On Tuesday morning, one 12-year-old pupil died and two other pupils were hospitalized with serious injuries, apparently at the hands of another 12-year-old student in the same school. Shocking news that turn our memories to dark moments of the past such as Breivik’s mass murder in Norway or the current social tensions between gangs in Sweden and Finland or the street trafficking in Christiania/Copenhagen: all nations occupying the highest positions of the World Happiness Report. There is no ‘land of happiness’ as such.
