Anti-Islam protest underway in Germany
January 13, 2015  01:54
Anti-Islam protesters gathered Monday in the German city of Dresden, with some carrying banners with the names of those killed in the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris.

It is the 12th march in Dresden called by the protest group Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the West, or PEGIDA, since October. Dresden police say the number of people attending these rallies has increased from an estimated 350 protesters on October 20 to 18,000 on January 5. 

The PEGIDA movement emerged last year in the eastern German city. About 2% of Dresden's inhabitants are foreigners.

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