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Waitaki Labour candidate Ethan Reille received death threats and abuse online during the election campaign.
The day after he was confirmed as a candidate, he attended the A&P show in Fairlie.
Someone approached Reille and vented their frustrations with the government, then told him they wished he and former prime minister Dame Jacinda Ardern were dead.
Later that day, a volunteer overheard a conversation where somebody said they wanted the government to stop funding “those savages”, referring to Māori, and how they wanted to shoot Dame Jacinda.
The incidents left him feeling “furious and upset”.
From that point onward the majority of abuse was online.
He attracted death threats as well as abuse in emails and comments.
On one occasion his image was defaced with swastikas.
His mother changed her surname name on Facebook to escape the abuse.
“Words have a lot of meaning, especially online, because it’s there forever.”
The campaign has been full of abuse and death threats. Photo / Tim Cuff
It also affected volunteers, as those who campaigned over the phone were verbally abused.
