Pegida was founded in October 2014 by Lutz Bachmann, who runs a public relations agency in Dresden. [24] In 1998 he fled to South Africa to avoid German justice, but was finally extradited and served his two-year jail sentence. 2013 hingegen gab es nur 21.500 Asylgesuche. Chanting "Merkel out" and waving German flags, supporters of the xenophobic PEGIDA movement vented their anger today against migrants after a rash of sexual assaults in the western city of Cologne. [121], According to a survey by the Emnid institute conducted in December 2014, 53% of East Germans and 48% of West Germans showed understanding for Pegida demonstrations. [168], Turkey's Hürriyet and Sabah reported on Pegida and counterrallies. !Leider.Die meisten wollen es nicht wissen.Schau mer mal.Hier habe ich ein Podium gefunden,was wirklich zum lesen ist.Egal was für eine Meinung jeder hat.Und das ist Meinungsfreiheit für mich!!!! Nicht gelogen! [146], Far-right politics expert Hans-Gerd Jaschke thinks that the demands in Pegida's position paper stem from the middle class centre-right and could as well be the content of CDU/CSU's position papers. Pegida was founded in October 2014 by Lutz Bachmann, who runs a public relations agency in Dresden. Petry said to Oertel that Bachmann should no longer be supported ("Ich habe ihr gesagt, dass Bachmann nicht mehr zu halten ist"). Armes Deutschland. International media correspondents portrayed an "atmosphere of hatred and resentment" and published social media comments of Pegida sympathizers, who had expressed disdain for the dead Eritrean. Ich kann jeden dieser 19 Punkte nur unterstützen. [162], The controversy around Pegida sparked reactions from international media as well. Pegida's worries about the Islamization of Germany concern the seeming intolerance and religious fanaticism that have grown hand-in-hand with the arrival of … [133], Josef Schuster, chairman of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, voiced his opposition to the group, saying that the possibility of an Islamic conquest of Germany would be as "absurd" as a resurrection of the Nazi regime. He condemned the movement, stating that the fear of Islamist terror was being exploited to disparage an entire religion. [152], In his article for the German newspaper Zeit Online, political scientist and historian Michael Lühmann called it "cynical to want to place Pegida in the tradition of 1989". Lenz, man MUSS Ihnen schon Recht geben. | Aly concluded that in Dresden "freedom, self-aggrandising local presumption and fear of foreigners" have long belonged together. vor der Veröffentlichung zu prüfen. [135], Bachmann's credibility as a leader has been criticised because he has numerous criminal convictions, including "16 burglaries, drink-driving or without a licence and even dealing in cocaine". Despite a participation rate of only 18 percent in the online survey, it largely had similar results to the survey in Dresden. [194][195], On 23 January 2016, representatives of 14 like-minded allies, including Pegida Austria, Pegida Bulgaria, and Pegida Netherlands, met with Lutz Bachmann and Tatjana Festerling in the Czech Republic to sign the Prague Declaration, which states their belief that the "history of Western civilisation could soon come to an end through Islam conquering Europe", thus formalizing their membership in the Fortress Europe coalition against that eventuality. After the Charlie Hebdo shooting on 7 January 2015 in Paris, politicians (including ministers Thomas de Maizière and Heiko Maas) warned Pegida against misusing the attack on Charlie Hebdo for its own political agenda. [182] There was a small Pegida demonstration in London on 4 April 2015, with a counter-demonstration by anti-fascist groups. [107], A group of social scientists led by Dieter Rucht from the Social Science Research Centre of Berlin (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, WZB) collected data both by flyer and online survey. [56] The crowd applauded and laughed, and let him continue his speech for another 20 minutes before calling upon him to finish. [39] A self-portrait of Bachmann allegedly posing as a reincarnation of Adolf Hitler, titled "He's back!" Bericht vom 13.02.2015 über den Exodus aus dem Kosovo: Allein in den letzten 1,5 Monaten haben 35.000 Menschen den Kosovo verlassen. Richtig! Vor diesem Hintergrund ist es unklar, warum eine Forderung nach mehr Mitteln für die Polizei aufgestellt wurde. BBC News said that Germany is not used to such large numbers of demonstrators supporting such positions. [36] The Dresden state prosecutors opened an investigation for suspected Volksverhetzung (incitement to hatred), and Deputy Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said the real face of Pegida had been exposed: "Anyone who puts on a Hitler disguise is either an idiot or a Nazi. Südwest-Grüne leiten Ausschlussverfahren gegen Tübingen-OB Boris Palmer ein. [citation needed] The same day, Yazidis and Muslim Chechens had violently clashed in Celle. Dresden und Pegida Aber bei all den Erklärungsversuchen, warum sich ausgerechnet Dresden zum Pegida-Massenphänomen entwickelt, darf nicht vergessen werden: Auch dort gibt es Widerstand. [165], Pegida has spawned a number of smaller offshoots across Germany, including Legida in Leipzig, Sügida in Südthüringen,[72] Kagida in Kassel, Wügida in Würzburg, Bogida in Bonn, Dügida in Düsseldorf,[69] and Fragida in Frankfurt. martina michalz. [20] The next day he founded a Facebook group called Patriotische Europäer Gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes ('Patriotic Europeans against Islamisation of the Occident'). 10 000 Menschen versammelten sich jetzt in Dresden und demonstrierten und zeigten ihre Angst wegen einer angeblich drohenden Überfremdung Deutschlands. [106] The author, Vorländer, did not see Pegida as a movement of right-wing extremists, pensioners or the unemployed, but stated that the rallies served as a way to express feelings and resentments against a political and opinion-making elite which have not been publicly articulated before. Consequently, there seemed to be a "strong sympathy" for "Pegida paroles". So wie Tsipras in Griechenland so auch Merkel hier bei uns. Úsvit's Marek Černoch said that the meeting was, among other things, a reaction to the attacks on women in Cologne in Germany on New Year's Eve, which took place as celebrations were being held to usher in 2016. Pegida steht für "Patriotische Europäer gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes" und ist eine nationalkonservative und ausländerfeindliche Organisation.