A Vienna man was given a nine-month suspended sentence after posting anti-Semitic statements on the Internet.

A court in the capital heard Wednesday how the 46-year-old wrote “all Jews should be gassed as in 1938” in the discussion forum of the Kronen Zeitung newspaper’s website.

The accused also posted “they should be put against the wall in Buchenwald and Dachau”.

“Good night to our society if such statements become socially acceptable,” judge Martina Krainz said, while prosecutors appealed to her to “act with the full force of the law” against the defendant.

The accused pleaded guilty.

“I was furious after losing loads of money in an online poker tournament. I downed a few beers and things then occurred the way they did,” he told the judge.

The sentence is legally binding.

(Source: Austrian Independent)