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Haider, Austria's notorious far-right politician, is killed in road crash
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Jörg Haider, the populist Austrian politician notorious for his xenophobia and alleged Nazi sympathies, was killed yesterday in a road accident at the age of 58.
Haider, the governor of the Austrian province of Carinthia and leader of the Alliance for the Future of Austria (AFA), was driving alone near the city of Klagenfurt. He died of severe head and chest injuries after his vehicle veered off the road as he attempted to overtake another car, doctors said.
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Haider, Austria's notorious far-right politician, is killed in road crash | World news | The Observer
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A multi-millionaire following the death of a rich landowner uncle who bequeathed him a huge estate controversially bought from an Italian Jew forced to flee Austria in 1940, Haider, always very popular in his home province of Carinthia, had toned down his rhetoric in recent years - though recent election posters in the town of Graz featured an immigrant beggar woman and the title 'Clean Up Graz'.
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Strache, who has called for a ministry of deportation of immigrants, openly mocks homosexuals and has been filmed in forests carrying arms and wearing paramilitary fatigues in the company of banned German neo-Nazis, ran a virulently xenophobic campaign with slogans such as 'lights home for asylum cheats'. Yesterday Strache said Haider's death had deprived Austria of 'a great political figure'.
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