Overview
- Lutz Bachmann held a return 'Abendspaziergang' in Dresden on Tuesday that police said drew about 450 people and then marched along Pegida’s original route.
- Organizers used a stripped-back format without a stage or large loudspeakers and Bachmann spoke through a megaphone, saying the aim was to return to the movement’s beginnings.
- The assembly was largely peaceful but ended with short physical and verbal clashes at the Luther monument, multiple attacks on press photographers, and isolated reports of the banned Nazi slogan 'Deutschland erwache'.
- Bachmann publicly called for donations for neo‑Nazi defendant Max Schreiber at the event, a move reporters tied to ongoing ties between Pegida circles and explicit extremist actors.
- Saxony’s Landesamt für Verfassungsschutz continues to classify Bachmann and Pegida as right‑wing extremist and keeps them under observation, and Bachmann has announced a follow-up evening walk planned for December.