Leader of anti-refugee Pegida becomes ‘refugee’ in Africa

Bachmann has spent a past several months on a Spanish island after his family could no longer take a vigour of vital in Dresden, where Pegida is based, according to a Sächsische Zeitung (SZ).

In a video published on Facebook, Bachmann claimed he and his mother were being “persecuted”, citing several attempts to mangle into his home.

But he did not endorse that he was now vital henceforth on a island off a west African coast. He had been on a island for a past 4 or 5 months following practice opportunities, he claimed.

Pegida – full name a Patriotic Movement opposite a Islamisation of a Occident – emerged in Nov 2014 as a travel transformation opposite immigration from Muslim countries. At a high indicate it drew tens of thousands of people onto a streets of Dresden and has given combined offshoots in many other German cities.

The 43-year-old Bachmann is a conduct of a movement, though a irony of him being means to shun visa-free to a colonial vestige of a continent where so many refugees come from has no doubt been mislaid on him.

As good as being photographed sporting a Hitler-style braid and moustache, he has also been found guilty of inciting hatred after he referred to refugees as “scum” and “cattle” in a array of Facebook posts.

But, since Bachmann was once ever benefaction during a weekly Monday dusk Pegida marches in Dresden, in new months he has been important for his absence, a SZ reports.

That he has flown off to Tenerife was suggested on Facebook by Tatjana Festerling, once co-leader of a organization, though who after dispute with Bachmann was turfed out of a leadership.

In a Facebook post, Festerling claimed that Bachmann usually comes behind to Germany each dual weeks for “a uncover of resistance.”

Article source: http://www.thelocal.de/20160921/leader-of-anti-refugee-pegida-becomes-refugee-in-africa