Germany Pegida: Protest leader quits amid 'Hitler' row

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

Naw, they're not Nazis, racists, xenophobes, or thugs. They're just ordinary German citizens expressing their concerns about Muslims.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30920086#%22

The head of Germany's "anti-Islamisation" movement has quit after a photo showing him apparently posing as Hitler was published in newspapers. Lutz Bachmann is also being investigated by prosecutors over disparaging comments about refugees attributed to him by German newspapers. He stepped down as thousands of people gathered in the eastern city of Leipzig for the Pegida movement's latest rally.

Mr Bachmann has apologised for his "ill-considered" remarks. A Pegida spokeswoman sought to play down the "Hitler" photo as a "joke".

But the German government condemned it. Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel told Bild: "Anyone in politics who poses as Hitler is either a total idiot or a Nazi. Reasonable people do not follow idiots, and decent people don't follow Nazis." Pegida has focused on Leipzig after police banned a protest by the movement in Dresden on Monday over reports of an assassination plot against the movement's leaders.

[Sunlei]

1. German prosecutors should add that 'joke pic' to their list of charges.

Then they can call his 'spokeswoman' in for Court testimony and anyone else involved with the 'joke' (camera person?)