Germany: Pegida Leader Faces Trial For Calling Refugees 'Cattle' And 'Scum'

The Local
Mar. 19, 2016

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".

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