Pegida demonstrates for fortress Europe

The anti-Islam movement Pegida on Saturday in several cities in Europe protested against the arrival of hundreds of thousands of migrants from the Middle East and Africa.

Dresden names by the movement about 8,000 people participated in the protest which chanted slogans like 'Merkel has to go '' and 'Resistance'. Pegida foreman Lutz Bachmann herself was not present due to illness. There were also several hundred counter-demonstrators who had possibly made even more noise.

From Poland, France, Great Britain, Latvia and Denmark were no more than a few hundred participants reported on the joint day of action under the slogan 'Fortress Europe'. In Amsterdam, were arrested about twenty protesters, among them in particular against demonstrators.

In a Pegida related to anti-Islam demonstration in the Czech capital Prague came Saturday to riots. Right-wing protesters clashed with left-wing counter-demonstrators. They threw bottles and fireworks. The police tried with hundreds of agents to keep the two groups apart.

About 1,500 opponents of Islamization gathered in front of the Prague Castle, seat of the president. The rise was against the organization, which had counted on thousands of demonstrators. Approximately four hundred counter-demonstrators chanted slogans against 'hate' and solidarity.

Calais and Copenhagen, where each about a hundred demonstrators were counted, were some arrests. In Montpellier in southern France about two hundred protesters took to the streets against migrants, Warsaw about 350.