founder and former leader of the anti-immigrant and anti-Islamic movement Pegida Lutz Bachmann was sentenced Tuesday by a court in Dresden fined for inciting hatred on grounds of nationality.
Bachmann has to pay a fine of 9600 euros.
The court found 43-year-old Bachmann guilty of place in September 2014. The comments on Facebook humiliating refugees terms like “cattle”, “lumpy” and “gnojowizna.” Accused “humiliate the dignity of refugees and disrupted the same public peace” – said the judge Hans Hlávka quoted by the agency dpa.
Bachmann denied that he was the author of entries.
The judgment is not final. The prosecution demanded seven months in prison.
Founded by Bachmann Pegida, which is an abbreviation of the German name of Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West, organized from October 2014 in Dresden weekly demonstrations, which terms drive against excessive supposedly influenced by the Muslim social life in Germany and the alleged tolerance by the authorities for this phenomenon .
In January 2015 the Internet appeared a picture of him with mustache and bangs a la Hitler. As he later explained, he gave so shoot for fun during a visit to the hairdresser.
The case of photographs strongly outraged public opinion, which in effect, Bachmann resigned from all his positions in Pegidzie. In October 2015 years prosecutors put him officially objection inciting hatred on grounds of nationality, which was the result of an investigation on the status on Facebook. Bachmann believes that this complaint is unfounded, claiming that this is only about Pegidy and discredit its activists. (PAP)
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