Enkeli-Elisa (Finnish for 'Elisa the Angel') is the name used for the main character in a story written by Finnish author Minttu Vettenterä, which first spread on the Internet and as a self-published book titled Jonakin päivänä kaduttaa ("Someday There Will Be Regrets") and thus spread through the media. The story is about a 15-year-old girl who was bullied at school and was claimed to have committed suicide. An organisation against school bullying was founded because of the story. The events in the story were presented as true events in many media, until the Helsingin Sanomat monthly supplement questioned the truthfulness of the events in July 2012 and the police started investigating the matter as a crime.[1][2][3][4][5] During police interrogations, Vettenterä admitted that Elisa's parents were not real people, but, according to her, the story is based on real people and events.[6]
- ^ Hagert, Kyösti (10 July 2012). "Enkeli-Elinan tarinan kirjoittanut tyrmistyi poliisitutkinnasta". Ilta-Sanomat (in Finnish). Archived from the original on 12 July 2012. Retrieved 11 July 2012.
- ^ "Enkeli-Elisan poliisitutkintaan uusia käänteitä". Aamuposti (in Finnish). 11 July 2012. Archived from the original on 14 July 2012. Retrieved 11 July 2012.
- ^ Silfverberg, Anu (13 July 2012). "Enkeli-Elisasta selviää uusia epäjohdonmukaisuuksia". Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish). Archived from the original on 15 July 2012. Retrieved 13 July 2012.
- ^ Nikkanen, Hanna; Silfverberg, Anu (July 2012). "Uskomaton murhenäytelmä". Helsingin Sanomat monthly supplement (in Finnish). pp. 36–42. Archived from the original on 14 October 2013. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
- ^ Kononen, Heidi. "Enkeli-Elisan kohtalo pysäyttää – koulukiusattu teinityttö päätyi itsemurhaan". YLE Häme (in Finnish). Archived from the original on 10 July 2012. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
- ^ "Vettenterä myönsi poliisille esiintyneensä itse Enkeli-Elisan isänä". Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish). 16 August 2012. Archived from the original on 19 August 2012. Retrieved 16 August 2012.