Germany: Pegida Leader Faces Trial For Calling Refugees 'Cattle' And 'Scum'The LocalMar. 19, 2016 |
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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. Lutz Bachmann, 43, was charged with inciting hatred in October for a series of widely shared posts on the Pegida Facebook page, which stands for "Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident". A court date has been set for April, with two further hearings in May. The court said Bachmann's comments "disrupted public order" and constituted an "attack on (the refugees') dignity". Read More |