German intelligence services said Wednesday
that they would widen their surveillance of the Islamophobic protest movement
Pegida in its home state of Saxony, as the group had become a "extremist" and
"anti-constitutional".
A German far-right politician Thursday launched a "patriotic" breakaway party from the anti-immigration AfD,
potentially weakening the populist opposition movement.
As two youth wings of Alternative for Germany (AfD) are dissolved and politicians call for the whole party to be put under surveillance by authorities, we analyze what's going on.
An incident involving a TV camera crew, the Dresden police and an off-duty officer demonstrating with the anti-Islam Pegida movement is threatening to cause a major scandal in an eastern state dogged by its links to the far-right.
German prosecutors told The Local on Tuesday that police are investigating a video in which a crowd at a far-right rally shouts enthusiastically to “sink” refugees.
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party and the anti-Islam Pegida movement both held demos in Dresden at the same place on Monday, raising questions about the groups coming closer together.
German police said Friday they have detained a 30-year-old man suspected of having carried out bomb attacks that struck a mosque and an international convention centre in the eastern city of Dresden.
The founder of the far-right, anti-Islam movement has been banned from leading the group's weekly demonstrations - but he says this won't stop him from participating.
The leader of the anti-Islam movement reportedly used money from Pegida's coffers to pay for two personal court cases, German media reported this week.
Thousands of protesters massed in the eastern German city of Dresden on Sunday to mark the second anniversary of the anti-migrant and Islamophobic movement Pegida.
Saxon police have rushed to distance themselves from a colleague's announcement wishing anti-Islam Pegida demonstrators "success" at a march in Dresden during German Unity Day celebrations.
On Monday evening followers of the xenophobic Pegida movement marched in two factions in the capital of Saxony, brandishing fierce accusations of treason against one another.
He has infamously referred to refugees as "cattle" and "scum", but now Pegida leader Lutz Bachmann might feel some sympathy, after "persecution" has forced him to flee to the Spanish colonial remnant of Tenerife off the coast of West Africa.
Germany's anti-Islamic, anti-immigrant Pegida movement said Monday it is seeking to found a political party but stressed it would not seek to draw votes from populist far-right group AfD.
Poor old Dresden. The city where some decided Muslims are plotting to take over Europe now has an even bigger conspiracy on its doorstep - the Bilderberg group and its "plan for world domination".
Members of anti-Islam group Pegida were outraged this week to see photos of black and Middle Eastern children on packets of Kinder chocolate bars – only to learn they were childhood photos of the national football team.
People throwing around words like “vermin” or advocating the return of the gas chambers in online comments face high fines in Germany – as one German publication made very clear on Tuesday.
The founder of Germany's xenophobic and anti-Islamic PEGIDA movement will appear in court Tuesday on hate speech charges for branding refugees "cattle" and "scum" on social media.
The founder of Germany's xenophobic and anti-Islam group Pegida has been summoned to court on hate speech charges for describing refugees as "cattle" and "scum", a court in Dresden said Monday.
