death threats

THE LIKEABLE AND MILD-MANNERED NORBERT HOFER, WHO CAME CLOSE TO WINNING AUSTRIA'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION as a member of the Freedom Party (FPOe) in 2016 and was chosen by the new OVP-FPOe coalition government as Minister of Infrastructure, has received death threats on Social Media, and also in his official government e-mail account. This is somewhat unprecedented in Austria.

Here is the e-mail in question (translated into English):

"Nice to install your Nazi chicks at the ÖBB [Austrian rail system].

And I have to work for Nazis now. Your dirty right-hand rat. Have you already planned the transports to the camps?

The day will come when you will hang.

You lousy Nazi rat. You incest child."