Showing posts with label Dresden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dresden. Show all posts

Thursday, October 01, 2015

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Germany: PEGIDA Protests Government's Response to Refugee Crisis


Thousands of PEGIDA protesters gathered on Neumarkt Square in Dresden on Monday, marching towards the city centre in opposition to government policies on Europe's ongoing migrant and refugee crisis.

Tuesday, September 08, 2015

Germany: 10,000 PEGIDA Protesters Rally against Refugees in Dresden


An estimated 10,000 supporters of PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans against Western Islamization), marched through the group's place of origin, Dresden, Monday, decrying Islamism in Europe and the mass immigration of Muslim refugees into Germany.

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Dresden: Tausende bei Pegida-Kundgebung


DIE PRESSE: Zur ersten Kundgebung seit dem Ausscheiden von Ex-Sprecherin Kathrin Oertel kamen am Montagabend rund 2000 Personen. Pegida-Gründer Lutz Bachmann trat erstmals seit seinem Rücktritt wieder auf.

In Deutschland rückt mit der Rückkehr von Pegida-Gründer Lutz Bachmann die islamkritische Dresdner Bewegung weiter nach rechts. Zur ersten Pegida-Kundgebung seit Abspaltung der Gruppe um Ex-Sprecherin Kathrin Oertel zogen am Montagabend laut Polizei rund 2000 Demonstranten vor die Dresdner Frauenkirche. » | APA/dpa | Montag, 09. Februar 2015

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Pegida Loses Second Leader in a Week

Kathrin Oertel has quit the leadership of Pegida
'due to massive hostility'.
THE GUARDIAN: Kathrin Oertel quits German far-right group’s leadership just days after resignation of founder Lutz Bachmann

German anti-Islam movement Pegida lost its second leader in a week on Wednesday when Kathrin Oertel, who took over after the founder quit for posing as Hitler, also stepped down, citing media pressure.

The Dresden-based group announced on its Facebook page that Oertel and another board member were resigning. The 37-year-old became Pegida’s national figurehead after founder Lutz Bachmann resigned a week ago after news that he was being investigated.

Pegida said that Oertel had quit “due to the massive hostility, threats and career disadvantages”, adding: “Even the strongest of women has to take time out when at night photographers and other strange figures are sneaking around outside her house.”

The group added that its cause remained “good and just”. » | Reuters in Berlin | Wednesday, January 28, 2015

YNET NEWS: PEGIDA spokesman: We are no Nazis: In exclusive Ynetnews interview, spokesperson of anti-Islamization grassroots initiative addresses Jewish world's concerns about the movement, says 'we want Jews and Israelis to feel safe in Europe.'‬‬ » | Moritz Josef Schulman | Saturday, January 24, 2015

Sunday, January 25, 2015

Germany’s Pegida Anti-Islam Movement: Can 'Cruella de Vil' Take It Mainstream?

Kathrin Oertel
Power to PEGIDA! Germany needs PEGIDA. Indeed the West needs PEGIDA. It is to be hoped that the movement spreads right across Europe. What will the dhimmi politicians do then? Politicians right across the West have foisted multicultural claptrap and immigrants on us all. The people are fed up. And that's what PEGIDA is about: The people fighting back. "Wir sind das Volk!" Es lebe PEGIDA! – © Mark

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Saturday, January 24, 2015

Heidi Munt Speaks at Rally: Islam Critics Set Up by Police


Watch this all the way through. It is not just rhetoric and jingoism. There are observations about the state of government and enforcement within Germany which are common in the Western world today.

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Germany Pegida: Protest Leader Quits in 'Hitler' Row

BBC AMERICA: The head of German "anti-Islamisation" movement Pegida, Lutz Bachmann, has resigned after a photo of him apparently posing as Hitler emerged.

Mr Bachmann stepped down just as tens of thousands of people were expected to rally in the eastern city of Leipzig for the latest Pegida rally.

Prosecutors are investigating insulting comments about refugees attributed to him by German newspapers.

A Pegida spokeswoman sought to play down the Facebook photo as a "joke".

But the German government condemned the photo. Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel told Bild: "Anyone in politics who poses as Hitler is either a total idiot or a Nazi. Reasonable people do not follow idiots, and decent people don't follow Nazis." » | Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Monday, January 19, 2015

Germany’s Pegida Anti-Islam Movement Vows to Continue Protests in Berlin and Munich

Lutz Bachmann, leader of the anti-Islamic Pegida movement
and Pegida spokewoman Kathrin Oertel give a press
conference in Dresden, eastern Germany
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: A planned march in Dresden on Monday night was cancelled but Pegida's leaders say rallies in other German cities will go ahead

The leaders of Germany’s Pegida anti-Islam movement have vowed to continue their protests after they were forced to cancel a march in Dresden planned for Monday night because of an Islamist terror threat.

Pegida rallies are to go ahead as planned on Monday night in other cities across Germany, including Berlin, Munich and Düsseldorf.

Police are prepared for large crowds after the Dresden march was called off, and possible clashes between Pegida supporters and opponents at counter-rallies.

In Dresden, police took the unusual step of banning all public gatherings for 24 hours, after what they said was a “concrete threat” against the planned march.

German intelligence reportedly intercepted messages from jihadists about a plan for assassins to mingle with protesters. According to Pegida leaders, the target was the movement’s founder, Lutz Bachmann. » | Justin Huggler, Berlin | Monday, January 19, 2015

Sunday, January 18, 2015

German Police Ban Anti-Islamic Pegida Rally in Dresden Citing Terror Threat


THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: Anti-Islamic Pegida march cancelled in Dresden after "concrete threat" from Islamic State

German police banned a planned rally by the anti-Islamic Pegida movement and other public open-air gatherings in the eastern city of Dresden on Monday, citing a terrorist threat.

Dresden police said on Sunday they had received information from federal and state counterparts indicating a "concrete threat" against the right-wing populist group "Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident".

There had been calls for would-be "assassins to mingle among the protesters ... and to murder an individual member of the organising team of the Pegida demonstrations", police said in a notice on the 24-hour ban.

This was consistent with "an Arabic-language Tweet that called the Pegida demonstrations an enemy of Islam", it said.

Top-circulation daily Bild said online that the threat targeted Pegida's most prominent leader Lutz Bachmann. » | AFP | Sunday, January 18, 2015

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Drohung gegen Pegida: Polizei in Dresden verbietet für Montag alle Kundgebungen


SPIEGEL ONLINE: Kein Pegida-Marsch am Montag in Dresden: Die Polizei hat alle öffentlichen Versammlungen unter freiem Himmel wegen Terrorgefahr verboten.

Dresden - Die Sorge vor Terroranschlägen in Deutschland hat eine neue Dimension erreicht: Die Polizeidirektion Dresden hat für Montag alle öffentlichen Versammlungen unter freiem Himmel verboten. Die geplante Pegida-Demonstration findet damit ebenso wenig statt wie die Kundgebung des Gegenbündnisses "Dresden für alle".

"Wir gehen in der Bewertung der aktuellen Lage nicht mehr nur von einer abstrakten Gefahr, sondern von einer konkreten aus", wird Polizeipräsident Dieter Kroll in einer Mitteilung zitiert. "Es geht um ein Mitglied des Orgateams von Pegida und die Versammlungen für den 19. Januar 2015." » | hut/sev/dpa | Sonntag, 18. Januar 2015

Saturday, January 17, 2015

The Rise and Spread of Pegida


THE LOCAL (DE): They've grown from a small Facebook community to a worldwide phenomenon. Sabine Devins looks at Pegida's rise to prominence and what it is they really stand for as the movement spreads across Europe.

The average Pegida marcher is surprisingly average. He’s 48, lives in Saxony, is educated and has a slightly higher than average income for the state of Saxony. He claims no political party affiliation and doesn’t belong to a church.

That’s according to the Technical University in Dresden, who on Wednesday released the first empirical survey on who is Pegida.

And every Monday, he turns up with thousands of others to chant “We are the people” or “Wir sind das Volk” in protest against what he believes is ruining Germany.

Pegida or the Patriots Against the Islamisation of the West is not just an evolution of the Hooligans against Salifists demonstrations that turned violent in Cologne in October. Nor is it an arm of the neo-nationalistic party, the National Democratic Party.

It is far too smart to get lumped in with those massively unpopular groups.

What began as a group on social media emerged from the virtual to the real world starting in early 2014.

On January 12th, 2015, the latest "evening walk" in Dresden attracted 25,000 participants in the wake of the killing of 12 staff at French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo at the hands of three Muslim men.

“I’m here because I think that, in Germany, we have a nice culture with tradition and history, and I worry that in the future, we will lose some of those things to the migrants bringing in their other beliefs and not wanting to conform to the beliefs that we have made our society on,” said one Pegida marcher who didn’t want to be named. He had driven all the way from Stuttgart to attend his first walk.

His sentiment is one that is shared by the Pegida founders. » | Sabine Devins | Friday, January 16, 2015

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Anti-Islam Rally Continues in Germany: Pegida Marchers in Dresden Defy Germany Politicians


Thousands of protesters have gathered in Dresden for an anti-Islamisation rally called in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.

25.000 marschieren für Pegida in Dresden

FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG: Nach den Terroranschlägen in Paris bekommt die Pegida-Bewegung in Dresden noch einmal starken Zulauf. Dass Angehörige und Freunde der Opfer den Zuspruch der Demonstranten gar nicht wollen, ist denen egal.

Leipzig und Dresden trennen am Montag Welten. Während das islamkritische Legida-Bündnis bei seinem ersten Protest in Leipzig mit 2000 bis 3000 Teilnehmern rund 30.000 Gegendemonstranten auf die Straße bringt, kommen in Dresden nach Polizeiangaben mehr als 25.000 Anhänger zu Pegida, den selbsternannten „Patriotischen Europäern gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes“. Die Organisatoren sprechen von 40.000 Teilnehmern. Vor einer Woche waren es laut Polizei noch 18.000 gewesen.

Die Elbestadt gibt damit bei den inzwischen bundesweit organisierten Protesten gegen eine angebliche Überfremdung in Deutschland weiter den Ton an. Die Bewegung entstand dort im Oktober und wächst seitdem. Der Zulauf scheint ungebrochen, viele Sympathisanten reisen aus anderen Landesteilen an, wie Fahnen und Schilder zeigen. » | Quelle: dpa/FAZ.NET | Montag, 12. Januar 2015

Anti-Islam Protesters March in Dresden, Germany



Read the CNN article here | Rick Noack | CNN | Monday, January 12, 2015

Monday, January 12, 2015

Pegida wird konkret

FRANKFURTER RUNDSCHAU: Ein Trauermarsch für „Charlie Hebdo“, sechs Forderungen an die „Etablierten“ und so viele Teilnehmer wie nie zuvor. Es wird weniger gerufen, gebrüllt und geschrien bei Pegida, es ist nicht so hitzig und aggressiv wie beim letzten Mal.

Es wäre interessant, irgendwann einmal zu erfahren, ob Lutz Bachmann auch wirklich meint, was er so sagt, wenn er Reden hält. Bachmann, 41, ist einer der Organisatoren und Köpfe der Dresdner Pegida-Bewegung. Es ist Montagabend, ein kalter Südost weht über den Platz hinter dem Hygienemuseum, russische, niederländische, deutsche und viele französische Flaggen knattern im Wind. Es ist die zwölfte Kundgebung seit Oktober, Tausende sind auf dem Platz, so viele wie nie zuvor. „Ha, endlich wieder Sturm und Drang“, freut sich ein junger Mann und reibt sich die kalten Hände. Ein anderer neben ihm zielt mit seinem grünen Laserpointer auf die Leute, die aus dem Hochhaus gegenüber die Menschenmenge betrachten.

Heute Abend ist alles ein wenig anders als bei früheren Demos. Es gibt nur wenige Gegenkundgebungen mit weniger Teilnehmern. Es wird weniger gerufen, gebrüllt und geschrien bei Pegida, es ist nicht so hitzig und aggressiv wie beim letzten Mal. Es beginnt mit einer Schweigeminute für die ermordeten Karikaturisten des französischen Magazins „Charlie Hebdo“ und die in Nigeria von islamistischen Mörderbanden umgebrachten Männer, Frauen und Kinder. Tatsächlich tragen einige Trauerflor, einige sogar Transparente: „Je suis Charlie.“ Ein Mann hält ein Bild von Angela Merkel hoch: Verschleiert und Mundwinkel ganz nach unten. » | Von Bernhard Honnigfort | MOntag, 12. Januar 2015