Some of the early reports
[1] created the impression the mother who got stabbed while she was pushing her baby in a stroller would have been one of the two fatalities. (Police had only identified the fatalities as two female Finnish citizens and have not revealed any identifiable details of the injured-but-alive victims either, so there was not much for the media to go on.)
Italian papers have now been reporting the mother in fact survived, and is an Italian citizen who has been living in Finland for some years, working as a researcher at a university (of Turku?). She remains hospitalized but apparently in a non-critical condition:
http://www.corriere.it/esteri/17_agosto ... 7363.shtml
http://www.corriere.it/cronache/17_agos ... resh_ce-cp
http://www.lanazione.it/arezzo/cronaca/ ... -1.3342415
The two latter stories would also seem to suggest she has previously been participating in the
“STOP DEPORTATIONS” / “RIGHT TO LIVE” demonstrations — of which there have been many in Finland at various places, including the Helsinki-Vantaa airport — protesting the deportation of asylum seekers whose asylum application Migri have rejected.
According to police, the attacker had been “participating in the asylum application process”. According to a source interviewed by MTV3, the suspect’s application for asylum
had been rejected.
Aamulehti reports the members of the local Moroccan community in Turku telling
the man had been posing as a Palestinian to the authorities despite actually being a Moroccan citizen, but Migri did not fall for it.
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[1] Not specifically by YLE but the Finnish media in general.