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| − | '''Kathrin Oertel''' co-founded the anti-Islam, anti-immigrant German movement [[PEGIDA]], an acronym for the German for 'Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West'. | + | '''Kathrin Oertel''' co-founded the anti-Islam, anti-immigrant German movement [[PEGIDA]], an acronym for the German for '[[Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West]]'. |
She briefly led the movement after the resignation of founder [[Lutz Bachmann]] following the publication of photographs of him posing as Hitler and the announcement that authorities were investigating him for inciting hatred. Within a week she had also resigned. | She briefly led the movement after the resignation of founder [[Lutz Bachmann]] following the publication of photographs of him posing as Hitler and the announcement that authorities were investigating him for inciting hatred. Within a week she had also resigned. | ||
Revision as of 16:08, 2 February 2015
Kathrin Oertel co-founded the anti-Islam, anti-immigrant German movement PEGIDA, an acronym for the German for 'Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West'.
She briefly led the movement after the resignation of founder Lutz Bachmann following the publication of photographs of him posing as Hitler and the announcement that authorities were investigating him for inciting hatred. Within a week she had also resigned.
PEGIDA announced on its Facebook page that Oertel, reportedly 37 years old in January 2015, had quit 'due to the massive hostility, threats and career disadvantages', adding: 'Even the strongest of women has to take time out when at night photographers and other strange figures are sneaking around outside her house.'[1]
She had become well known in Germany after appearing on a 'widely watched' German television talk show, Guenther Jauch on 19 January, and reportedly demanded 'dialogue with the political establishment'. According to the BBC she had 'tried to take PEGIDA mainstream' and 'distanced herself from the more radical Leipzig branch of Pegida', known as Legida.[2]
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- ↑ Pegida loses second leader in a week, Reuters/The Guardian28 January 2015
- ↑ Jenny Hill, Germany Pegida: Leader Kathrin Oertel quits protest group, BBC News, 28 January 2015
