The municipality of Helmond has tapped an official who closed his e-mail with a remarkable statement. Under the digital signature of the Technical Employee Waste and Cleaning, the text was: ‘there is a difference between Netanyahu and Hitler, I wonder’. The municipality says that the signature has since been adjusted and that personal views do not belong in business e-mails.
The website received no style a message From a worried citizen who asked the civil servant a question about replacing a click. In response, the man received an e-mail back with some explanation about the Kliko and below the remarkable sentence.
The website himself also put the test to the test and emailed the waste officer. In the answer they received, exactly the same text was under the digital signature. “Is there a difference between Netanyahu and Hitler, I wonder,” said in blue letters in the so -called footer from the mail. Benjamin Netanyahu is the Prime Minister of Israel.
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After asking Omroep Brabant, the municipality announces that the digital signature of the employee has since been adjusted. “Personal views do not belong to the business closure of the e-mail messages of our municipality. Words of this scope In this signature are not a municipal position. We are talking to the employee, this is an internal issue,” the municipality writes.
A spokesperson does not want to say what possible consequences are for the employee. “We are aware that the situation in Israel and the Palestinian territories evokes strong feelings, also with our employees. Regarding developments in Gaza, the College of Mayor and Aldermen sent a letter to draw a clear limit with regard to the actions of Israël at the end of May.”