Following a wave of hate speech directed at the newly appointed Austrian Justice Minister Alma Zadic online, Austrian Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counterterrorism warned of a possible planned attack and immediately provided three agents from the Cobra special forces for her protection, Kronen Zeitung reported on Wednesday.

How long their assignment will last depends on further threat assessment.

However, the daily notes that the assignment is all the riskier because the Green party officials tend to go to work by bicycle, which complicates things even further.

The debate over who else, apart from Minister Zadic, will be granted Cobra protection is still ongoing.