FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2011 file photo, Finland's Prime Minister Jyrki Tapani Katainen arrives for an EU summit in Brussels. A government spokesman said Monday, Oct. 22, 2012 that security guards stopped a knife-wielding man from stabbing Katainen while he was campaigning for municipal elections. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File)
FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2011 file photo, Finland's Prime Minister Jyrki Tapani Katainen arrives for an EU summit in Brussels. A government spokesman said Monday, Oct. 22, 2012 that security guards stopped a knife-wielding man from stabbing Katainen while he was campaigning for municipal elections. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File)
FILE - In this April 16, 2011 file photo, Jyrki Katainen, center, chairman of The National Coalition Party and candidate for the Finnish Parliament canvasses during the party's election campaign in downtown Helsinki, Finland. A government spokesman said Monday, Oct. 22, 2012 that security guards stopped a knife-wielding man from stabbing Finland's prime minister Jyrki Katainen while he was campaigning for municipal elections. (AP Photo/Lehtikuva, Sari Gustafsson, File) FINLAND OUT, NO SALES
FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2011 file photo, Finland's Prime Minister Jyrki Tapani Katainen speaks to the media as he arrives for an EU summit in Brussels. A government spokesman said Monday, Oct. 22, 2012 that security guards stopped a knife-wielding man from stabbing Katainen while he was campaigning for municipal elections. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File)
HELSINKI (AP) ? Security guards stopped a knife-wielding man on Monday from approaching Finland's prime minister while he was campaigning for municipal elections, government officials said.
"The man was stopped before he reached the prime minister. He didn't have time to stab him," Kari Mokko, a government spokesman told The Associated Press.
The incident occurred in the southwestern city of Turku, where Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen was campaigning ahead of Sunday's municipal elections.
Mokko could not give any details on the suspect. He said the prime minister was not hurt.
Robert Seger, a Finnish newspaper photographer who witnessed the incident, said the man dropped to his knees in front of Katainen, holding a knife, but didn't attack him.
"He was trying to get Katainen's attention," Seger said.
The government's security chief Timo Harkonen told Finnish broadcaster YLE that the prime minister's security contingent "prevented it from becoming a dangerous situation."
Finnish news agency STT said police apprehended the man, who was behaving in a confused manner.
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