Germany: Pegida's leader compares minister Maas to Goebbels
Investigation opened into him
03 November, 19:37
(ANSA) - BERLIN - Once more, thousands of people took to the streets yesterday- they were about 8,000 - like every Monday, the anti-Islam members of Pegida sparked row: by comparing, this time, the Justice Minister Heiko Maas to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. The comparison - as expected - provoked heated debates, and was made by Luz Bachmann: the same provocateur who posted online a photo in which he looks like Hitler.
Maas said he did not want to sue Bachmann, but the local prosecutor has opened an investigation into him. Meanwhile, hundreds of citizens protested yesterday in the streets of Dresden against Pegida, by calling themselves ''Gepida'', German acronym which stands for ''enervated inhabitants protesting against the intolerant attitude of some Dresden outsiders''.
(ANSA).
