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Lex Boon’s dispute with Rovaniemi over Santa Claus

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Journalist Lex Boon said he is in a dispute with Rovaniemi, the Finnish village that presents itself as the official home of Santa Claus, and that he has been blacklisted. The dispute began after he received a press release about the village about nine years earlier and questioned who had decided it was Santa Claus’s official home.

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Lex Boon became involved in a dispute with Santa Claus in Finland

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Journalist Lex Boon, 42, received a press release about nine years ago concerning Rovaniemi, a Finnish village that presents itself as the official home of the real Santa Claus. Questions about who established that claim led to a series of events that Boon considered absurd and eventually to a legal dispute, which became the subject of a book. Boon said Santa Claus broke character and became angry with him.