The Movement PEGIDA
Thursday, 11 February 2016 10:03Pegida, "Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West" (Patriotische Europäer gegen die Islamisierung of Abendlande), is a right wing an anti-immigrant and anti-Islam organization launched in October 2014 in Germany, on social networks by Lutz Bachmann, a man known for his troubles with the German authorities: Bachman has since resigned from the movement.
On 20 October 2014, the first demonstration of Pegida was held in the german city of Dresden:it gathered some five hundred people .However every racist gathering organized y Pegida on mondays in Germany faces faces anti-racist demonstrations
Pegida gathers mainly people close to the extreme right, but until now no studies have shown that Pegida is a political organization.
Scapegoats for Pegida are essentially foreigners, Muslims, politicians and the media.
On 6th February 2016, the Movement has organized demonstrations in 14 European countries. But the protests were not successful despite the rise of the extreme right in Europe.
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