Twitter must immediately take action against violent messages shared by the social media site’s users which target members of the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of Dutch parliament, said Vera Bergkamp. The Tweede Kamer chair wrote a letter to Twitter about the matter, and published it on her own Twitter profile on Wednesday.

In the letter, she specifically referenced tweets “showing videos and/or images containing (death) threats and calls for violence and even murder.” She continued to state, “These are probably punishable under Dutch criminal law.”

The letter was not meant to be a reference to any one specific incident, a spokesperson for the political leader told newswire ANP. Politicians in the Netherlands have increasingly become the target of threats online, a trend which began before the coronavirus pandemic and intensifi