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PEGIDA chief in soup over remarks against refugees
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 20 - 04 - 2016

The co-founder of Germany's anti-Islam PEGIDA group arrived at a Dresden court on Tuesday for his trial on incitement charges wearing large rectangular black glasses obscuring his eyes, apparently mocking German media and privacy rules.
Lutz Bachmann, a 43-year-old with drugs and burglary convictions, is charged with incitement for sending a Facebook post in which called refugees "cattle," "garbage" and "scumbags." He insists he is not racist.
Bachmann's dark glasses appeared to be mocking German media, described by PEGIDA as the "lying press," a Nazi term, as media are supposed to conceal the faces of suspects in some cases.
PEGIDA, short for Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West, forced itself onto Germany's political agenda last year with its anti-immigrant rallies that started in the eastern city of Dresden and spread to several other cities.
Bachmann, who briefly quit as leader of PEGIDA last year after pictures were printed of him posing with a Hitler mustache and haircut, shook hands outside the court with a handful of supporters, some holding Germany flags and placards.
One read: "We want a Germany out of the euro, out of the European Union, out of NATO and with true democracy." Another read: "(Chancellor Angela) Merkel to court!"
Prosecutors say he could face a prison term of between three months and five years. "We accuse the defendant of insulting asylum seekers and refugees in a publicly accessible Facebook comment. In addition, he is said to have denied them an equal life in Germany," said state prosecutor Lorenz Haase.
At its height, just over a year ago, PEGIDA's twilight rallies drew tens of thousands of supporters, with many waving Germany flags and chanting xenophobic slogans. A rally on Dresden on Monday night drew about 3,000 people, German media reported. Despite the influx of over 1 million migrants to Germany last year, the grassroots movement's appeal has waned. Support has shifted to the anti-immigrant right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) which has won seats in eight regional assemblies.
However, mainstream politicians are worried about right-wing attacks on migrants. Earlier, German police near Dresden arrested five people they suspect of forming a far-right militant group and preparing attacks on asylum seekers using explosives.


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