Estonian opera to raise money for fined pensioner

Voldemar Kuslap, 72, was found guilty on Wednesday by a court in Tallinn in a decision which sparked widespread criticism in Estonian media.
The pensioner was ordered to pay compensation of 50,000 kroons (3,196 euros, 3,959 dollars) -- the average annual salary in Estonia -- to the youth.
Mae said the national opera's singers would perform unpaid alongside Kuslap on May 29, and ask audience members to make a financial contribution to a special fund.
Kuslap fell foul of the law after a midnight argument last month with a group of youngsters in the apartment below his who were holding the latest in a string of loud parties.
The youngsters took legal action, claiming Kuslap had behaved aggressively and that one of them ended up with his middle finger jammed in a door after the pensioner slammed it shut.
As a result, the teenager lost a three-millimetre (0.12-inch) piece of fingertip.
"I was very emotional that night after I had returned from [the] funeral of friend," Kuslap told reporters, adding that he only learned about the fingertip after reading the press.
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