Pegida Switzerland
| Pegida Schweiz Pegida Suisse Pegida Svizzera Pegida Svizra Pegida Helvetia | |
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| Formation | 9 January 2015 |
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| Type | Anti-Islam |
| Headquarters | Dresden, Germany[1] |
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| Leader | Mike Spielmann Tobias Steiger |
| Website | Official Facebook page |
Pegida Switzerland is the Swiss branch of the German anti-Islam movement Pegida.[2] It was launched on 9 January 2015, two days after the Charlie Hebdo attacks.[2][3]
History
[edit | edit source]In January 2015, the spokesperson Ignaz Bearth was accused by the media of having bought likes for his Facebook Page.[4] The reason: Reporter Sebastian Sele from Vice magazine claimed that when he used Stern magazine's Facebook like check tool[5] to see what it would show about Ignaz Bearth's Facebook Page, it showed that 43% of Ignaz Bearth's Facebook Page's likes were from India.[6] According to Marco Lüssi from 20 Minuten, Lutz Bachmann wrote in a Facebook post on 5 March 2016 that Ignaz Bearth "had agreed to leave Pegida months ago and is in no way a representative of our burgher movement."[7] This means that Bearth is no longer welcome as a speaker at any Pegida rallies anywhere in the world.[1] Ignaz Bearth agreed, for "the good of the movement," to step down from his role as spokesperson for Pegida Switzerland.[4]
Mike Spielmann and Tobias Steiger then took over the role of doing official communication with Dresden for Pegida Switzerland.[1] Spielmann and Steiger have plans to make Pegida Switzerland a full-fledged political party "in consultation with [Pegida leadership in] Dresden."[1]
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