Legida protesters demonstrate against Angela Merkel refugee politics

In the eastern city of Leipzig, well over 2,000 anti-Muslim Legida protestors took to the streets on 11 January, their ranks swelled by anger over the Cologne attacks. They yelled Merkel needs to go! and one carried a sign featuring Merkel wearing a hijab and the words: Merkel take your Muslims with you and get lost. Legida is the Leipzig arm of the anti-Islam movement Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (PEGIDA Jan 12, 2016