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The Saxon Office for the Protection of the Constitution (LfV) classifies the Pegida movement as a “proven extremist endeavor”.
Pegida initially attracted a “heterogeneous audience”, but over the years it “became increasingly right-wing extremist,” said the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Dresden on Friday.
There are now sufficiently reliable findings that Pegida has developed "over the years into an unconstitutional movement".
The organization is increasingly adopting radical and ultimately extremist basic convictions.
This development is an expression of a "verbal and ideological radicalization" that has grown over the years.
Both are due to the fact that proven right-wing extremists have significantly influenced the course of Pegida events.
In the course of its existence, Pegida has given itself an increasingly right-wing extremist orientation.
Positions are propagated in public that are “incompatible with the canon of values of the Basic Law”.
"Parliamentarism is made contemptible"
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This includes making “parliamentarism contemptible” and “rejecting the rule of law”.
In addition, the speeches regularly contain “anti-minority, anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic statements”.
Pegida is now an integral part of the right-wing extremist scene.
"As Pegida regularly offers known right-wing extremists a public agitation platform to propagate anti-constitutional positions and ideologies, this movement acts like a 'hinge' between extremists and non-extremists," says LfV President Dirk-Martin Christian.
He considers the penetration of right-wing extremist ideas into the center of society through Pegida in the long run as a serious threat to the social order.
The observation includes - in addition to the Pegida-Förderverein - all persons and activities from which extremist endeavors emanate. Peaceful participants in the gatherings who exercise their basic right to freedom of expression are not observed, says Christian.