Action of French caricaturists: “Pegida, disappears”

French caricaturists place themselves against Pegida - with rather clear designs. Reason is a planned “funeral march” in Dresden. “We are disgusted”, write the artists.

Hamburg - “Pegida, disappears!” - with a handbill and caricatures French and French-speaking caricaturists placed themselves Pegida against the Islam-hostile movement. They are indignant about the “funeral march” planned in Dresden, were called it in a call of Sunday.

“We reject it that Pegida wants to take in the memory of our colleagues”, said a Mitorganisator and a spokesman of the action of the German press agency. Because of the attack on the French satire magazine “the Pegida organizers their supporters requested Charlie Hebdo” with twelve dead to carry during the demonstration on this Monday in Dresden black ribbon.

“We, the French and French-speaking draughtsmen, are frightened over the murder of our friends. And we are disgusted that right forces try, these for their purposes to instrumentalize”, are called it in the handbill. One of the caricatures shows for instance an hyena and a carrion vulture, which want to strike capital from the terrorist attack. The draughtsmen at the same time call the Dresdens to cosmopolitanness and tolerance. “In this fight Dresden, like Paris, is a symbolic city.”

For the first time there is to be a large Pegida demonstration on this Monday also in Leipzig. After the terror attacks of Paris the city administration issued however a disputed edition: The demonstrators may not show Mohammed caricatures - around provocations to prevent.