Trivia

The former and present Finnish commissioners, Erkki Liikanen and Olli Rehn, are both born Mikkelians. The local football team is the First Division Mikkelin Palloilijat (MP), for which Olli Rehn used to play for 13 years (youth teams 1968–78, first team 1979–82). Source: European Commission On August 9, 1986, there was a siege in Mikkeli after a bank robbery that had taken place the previous day in Jakomäki, Helsinki. The siege lead to a car explosion at the edge of the market place, in which the bank robber and one of his three hostages were killed.