Lutz Bachmann threatens apparently new trouble with the judiciary. The Dresden police said they investigate for incitement and incitement to crimes against a 46-year-olds. This is probably the founder of the xenophobic Pegida alliance.
Background of the investigation is a speech that was held on Monday at a Pegida demonstration in the Saxon capital. The state security have video footage of the appearance secured, meanwhile, have already filed seven criminal charges, the police said.
The officials spoke of a speaker without naming Bachmann's name. A spokesman confirmed his identity on demand of the news agency AFP not express. He did not want to deny that information at the same time. Pegida supporters had met in Dresden for one of their regular rallies.
Bachmann's speech was documented by Pegida herself and disseminated on the Internet. With regard to climate activists, environmentalists and their supporters from politics and trade unions Bachmann spoke in it, among other things of "people's pests," "parasites" and "lousy maggots."
Even vice president Wendt (AFD) at the demo
In addition, the 46-year-old said in his speech that they were on the "degenerate side" of a trench that they pulled through society and that separates them from the "good ones". Bachmann articulated, under the applause of the audience, the idea of throwing supporters of such convictions into the ditch and pouring it on. In this context, he spoke among other things of "green, left and extremist garbage".
The Saxon Greens had already expressed shocked by the speech of Bachmann on Tuesday. One of its deputies had also been threatened by name massive, said the parliamentary group. These are public murders, this would have legal consequences. At the same time they warned against an increasing "disinhibition of language".
At the same time, the Green Party and the Left expressed sharp criticism of the fact that provincial vice-president André Wendt of the AfD participated in the demonstration of the Pegida Alliance. "In our opinion, this does not correspond to the neutrality and dignity of the office," the Greens declared. They want to address the behavior according to their own statements in the presidium of the state parliament.
