24-628: Lutz Bachmann (born 26 January 1973) is the founder and leader of the Pegida movement, a far-right German political organisation linked to the anti-Muslim counter-jihad ideology. As leader of Pegida, Bachmann has led marches of tens of thousands of people against Muslim immigration. Bachmann has a long history of criminal convictions, and was banned from entering the United Kingdom in 2018. Born in 1973 in Dresden , East Germany , Bachmann had
48-466: A Taliban beard" ( "Moslemfritzen mit Talibanbart" ), who had as much to do with German culture as "my asshole with the production of perfume" ( "wie mein Arschloch mit Parfümherstellung" ). However, the most-widely spread quote from Pirinçci's 19 October speech was, "Unfortunately, the concentration camps are out of order at the moment!" ( "Aber die KZs sind ja leider derzeit außer Betrieb!" ), which
72-584: A fugitive , he opened a nightclub in Cape Town which catered to black people . This was not long after the end of apartheid , and Bachmann says, "It was scandalous. People were shouting at me, 'How can you do this as a German, as a white? How can you open a night club for blacks?'" Bachmann says, "I became a refugee. But a refugee from German law". Bachmann is the owner of a public relations and advertising company in Dresden that he founded in 1992, and has been
96-801: A publicist for nightclubs . In January 2014, Bachmann was one of 500 helpers, who was awarded the Saxon Flood Helper Order at a public event by Dresden's Lord Mayor Helma Orosz on behalf of the Saxon Prime Minister Stanislaw Tillich . During the 2013 floods , he had organised the Flood Aid Centre in the former Glücksgas Stadium and collected aid and donations. Bachmann started Pegida in October 2014 to protest plans to add 14 refugee centres in Dresden, Germany. Through Pegida he rallied
120-452: A working-class upbringing. Time reports that he is the son of a butcher. He was a chef and graphic designer , and played professional soccer for teams in Dresden and Düsseldorf . Bachmann has a criminal record for sixteen burglaries , dealing cocaine and assault. In 1998, after Bachmann had been sentenced to several years in prison, he fled to South Africa but was deported back to Germany. According to Bachmann, during his time as
144-453: A "mentally sick, manic queer with a screw loose" ( "geisteskranken, durchgeknallten Schwulen mit Dachschaden" ). Pirinçci had also described the professor's theories as a "jewel of stupidity" ( "Juwel der Doofheit" ). At the first anniversary of the Pegida protests in Dresden on 19 October 2015, Pirinçci was invited as keynote speaker. He accused German politicians of being " Gauleiter against their own people" and called Germany's government
168-533: A "shit state" ( "Scheißstaat" ). Further, according to Pirinçci, Muslims want to "pump infidels full of their Muslim juice" ( "Ungläubige mit ihrem Moslemsaft vollpumpen" ) and stated that Germany is becoming a "Muslim garbage dump" ( "Moslemmüllhalde" ). He called the German Green Party a "Party of child fuckers " ( "Kinderfickerpartei" ), and the spokesperson for the mosque in Erfurt a "Muslim guy with
192-709: A highly controversial speech for the Pegida movement in 2015, he had his contracts cancelled and works delisted by his publishers, Amazon and most booksellers in Germany. While writing and publishing these non-fiction essays, Pirinçci also increasingly came in contact with functionaries of the anti-Islamic movement Pegida , the right-wing populist party Alternative for Germany , and the small right-wing German Freedom Party , who organized lecture tours where Pirinçci would read from his two political essay books. When he faced criticism in May 2014, he justified these contacts by telling
216-458: A mustache and hair style similar to Adolf Hitler . According to Bachmann, it was an old photo that was meant as a joke. After the photo sparked international outrage, Bachmann stepped down as de facto leader of Pegida. According to Bachmann and Pegida co-founder Kathrin Oertel, Bachmann's resignation had nothing to do with the photo. A few weeks later, Bachmann was reinstated as a co-leader following
240-663: A penalty order from the Dresden District Court for sedition and violations of the Assembly Act. Bachmann had published a speech by Akif Pirinçci on the internet, for which Pirinçci was later convicted. The same month, the State Criminal Police Office of Berlin took up investigations against Bachmann for slander, false suspicion and incitement, because Bachmann had made false claims regarding Keira G. murder case . Bachmann had posted
264-663: A speech at the Speakers' Corner in London , but was rejected by the British authorities at the London Stansted Airport where he was taken into custody by British authorities, and taken to a deportation facility and flown back to Germany a little later. The British authorities justified the deportation notice with the concern for the public good and Bachmann's criminal record for drug trafficking. He then announced in
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#1732779559792288-765: A video message that the speech he wanted to hold was that of the head of the Austrian Identitarian movement , Martin Sellner . Sellner had also been refused entry a few days earlier. Bachmann then read the Sellner speech in Dresden on a Pegida Monday demonstration. For the insult of a journalist in August 2019, Bachmann was sentenced to 60 daily rates by the District Court of Dresden in February 2020. Because Bachmann had published an arrest warrant, he
312-423: A vote. The Sächsische Zeitung later reported that the moustache was added after the photo was taken, with Bachmann asserting that it was a "forgery". In 2016, Bachmann was charged with incitement of racial hatred. The charges were laid after someone using a Facebook page with Lutz Bachmann's name called refugees "cattle," "scumbags," and "filth" in a Facebook post in 2014. The first day of Bachmann's trial, which
336-415: The details below. Request from 172.68.168.226 via cp1108 cp1108, Varnish XID 212688593 Upstream caches: cp1108 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 07:39:20 GMT Akif Pirin%C3%A7ci Akif Pirinçci ( Turkish pronunciation: [aːˈcif piɾintʃˈdʒi] ; born 20 October 1959) is a Turkish-born German writer who is best known internationally for his novel Felidae . After
360-517: The disparate forces of the German right against the "parallel societies" of Muslims in Europe. Bachmann publicly renounces extremist violence of any kind and insists his enemy is not religion itself. As a result of his involvement with Pegida he has been threatened with death and had to cancel a march in Dresden. In mid-January 2015, Bachmann was criticised after a photograph surfaced showing him with
384-508: The internet would constitute evidence. On 3 May 2016, Bachmann was convicted of "inciting racial hatred" and fined €9,600. Both the defence as well the prosecution were planning on appealing against the ruling. In October 2016, Lutz Bachmann moved to live in the south of Tenerife where he was declared persona non grata by the authorities of that island. Bachmann has set up the new party Liberal Direct Democratic People's Party ( Freiheitlich Direktdemokratische Volkspartei , FDDV). The party
408-426: The online blog of the newspaper Die Zeit "I don't give a flying fuck if people call me a Nazi, I don't give a damn." ( "Es geht mir am Arsch vorbei, wenn man mich einen Nazi nennt, das ist mir scheißegal" ). On 20 January 2015, the local paper General-Anzeiger reported that Pirinçci had been found liable for defamation in a civil suit brought by a professor of sociology and biology, whom Pirinçci had described as
432-450: The photo of an innocent young Muslim man with a migration background due to a chance name resemblance on Facebook and accused him offender. The real suspect, an ethnic German, was already in pre-trial detention at that time. The Berlin police warned on the internet against false suspicion in the case of Keira. Bachmann defended himself by simply making an assumption and did not make any factual claims. A few days later, Bachmann wanted to hold
456-460: The webmaster to his online blog also cancelled Pirinçci's contract. At the same time, Amazon Germany chose to de-list his books so they can't be found through searches or ordered through the website. A few days later, all relevant book wholesalers in Germany (Libri, Umbreit, and KNV) also stopped ordering his books, and many independent bookstores issued statements that they would refuse to order his books, even upon request. This reaction by bookstores
480-568: Was criticized by columnist Jan Fleischhauer in Der Spiegel as amounting to authoritarian censorship. Volker Beck , member of parliament for the German Green Party, filed charges against Pirinçci for public incitement to commit criminal acts and incitement to hatred . A spokesperson for the federal prosecutor's office confirmed that an investigation is ongoing. Two weeks after his Pegida speech, Pirinçci told Der Spiegel that
504-626: Was established on 13 June 2016. In January 2017, Bachmann had to answer to the Dresden Regional Court because an aid organisation had sued him due to reputational damage. In a Facebook entry of November 2016, Bachmann had described the aid organisation, which collected donations for the purchase of a ship that was to participate in rescue missions in the Mediterranean, as a "criminally acting private smuggling organisation" and as "law breakers". In March 2018, Bachmann received
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#1732779559792528-561: Was met with applause from the crowd. In a wider context, Pirinçci's concentration camps statement was intended to accuse critics of Pegida of intending to send Pegida members to said concentration camps. Pirinçci's remarks were apparently deemed too offensive by the crowd, and was booed off the stage. Within 24 hours after first quotes from Pirinçci's Pegida speech appeared in the media, his publishers Goldmann and Random House issued statements that they had cancelled their contracts with Pirinçci and would no longer sell any of his books, and
552-470: Was originally planned on being split into three separate days, took place on 19 April 2016. Bachmann's lawyer, Katja Reichel, argued that there are hundreds of Facebook pages with the name Lutz Bachmann on Facebook, and that there was no reason to believe that the Lutz Bachmann being accused was the one who made these comments. State attorney Tobias Uhlemann has pointed out that nothing originating from
576-525: Was sentenced to 100 daily rates of 30 euros by the district court of Dippoldiswalde, then appealed, but withdrew it in August 2020, thus being finalised. In April 2022, Bachmann was convicted of insulting and sedition. The Dresden Regional Court imposed a six-month prison sentence, which was suspended for two years. Pegida Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include
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