Thread: Pegida pair hunt migrants with vigilantes on Bulgaria border

Pegida pair hunt migrants with vigilantes on Bulgaria border

Tatjana Festerling posted images of herself and Edwin Wagensveld hunting migrants with vigilantes along the Bulgarian border
with Turkey CREDIT: TATJANA FESTERLING/FACEBOOK

Justin Huggler, berlin 4 JULY 2016 • 6:51PM

The former frontwoman of Germany’s Pegida anti-Muslim movement and a leader of its Dutch offshoot have travelled to Bulgaria to hunt down migrants attempting to cross the border from Turkey, it has emerged.

Tatjana Festerling called on the “men of Europe” to travel to Bulgaria and join local vigilantes attempting to hunt down migrants.

Ms Festerling, who came to international notoriety earlier this year when she called for asylum-seekers to be shot if they attempted to cross the German border, was expelled from her post as Pegida's deputy leader two weeks ago.

She boasted on her Facebook page on Friday of spending a day with the “Bulgarian Military Veterans Union”, a paramilitary group of vigilantes who patrol the border searching for illegal immigrants. Ms Festerling said she was accompanied on the trip by a leader of the Dutch offshoot of Pegida, Edwin Wagensveld.

She posted pictures of herself and Mr Wagensveld posing alongside men in military-style uniform, their faces masked with balaclavas, holding up a banner which read “Fortress Europe”. Requests for comment made to the Dutch branch of Pegida have not yet been returned.

Ms Festerling was deputy leader of Pegida in Germany until her expulsion two weeks ago
CREDIT: TATJANA FESTERLING/FACEBOOK

Other pictures showed the masked men, who wore armbands in the colours of the Bulgarian national flag, hunting for migrants in the forested border area.

The post will raise fears of violence and of international vigilantes travelling to the border area.

The paramilitary group Ms Festerling joined on patrol is one of several believed to be operating in the Turkish-Bulgarian border area, independently of Bulgarian security forces.

The group claims it hands over any illegal immigrants it captures to the police.

Ms Festerling boasted on her Facebook post of braving “Scorching heat, rough terrain, jungle-like forest and mosquitoes” which “ensure these patrols are anything but a walk”.
She claimed that 1,000 migrants cross the border illegally each day. However she admitted the patrol had not found any on the day she joined it.

Instead she said discoveries of “fresh rubbish and dumped clothes” were evidence of illegal immigrants in the area.

The photos showed masked vigilantes holding up crushed soft drink cans, empty medicine packets with Arabic labels and Arabic identity cards.

“The most popular brand among the invaders on their robbery and rape campaign is Red Bull,” she claimed bizarrely.

“So much for the do-gooder speech of supposed ‘asylum-seekers’,” she wrote. “These are ice cold and calculating warriors of Islam, who come from decayed cultures and do not want the least to do with our free, decadent lifestyle, but despise it,” she wrote.

Pegida, or Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the West, first emerged in Ms Festerling’s home city of Dresden in 2014. It has spread across Europe and brought tens of thousands of people onto the streets at its height in early 2015, but has fallen in prominence in Germany after a series of scandals involving its leadership.

Ms Festerling, a former candidate for mayor in Dresden, shot to international fame in February when she called for asylum-seekers to be shot.

“If they keep crossing the border and you cannot arrest them, shoot them,” she said.

Her far-Right opinions have proved too extreme even for Pegida, which expelled her two weeks ago after she called for the German people to “take up pitchforks” against Angela Merkel’s government.

Pegida pair hunt migrants with vigilantes on Bulgaria border

We need to get our "Bikers on the Border" to patrol the routes...turn them right back around!

No papers, no entry, no rights!

“So much for the do-gooder speech of supposed ‘asylum-seekers’,” she wrote. “These are ice cold and calculating warriors of Islam, who come from decayed cultures and do not want the least to do with our free, decadent lifestyle, but despise it,” she wrote.

Got that right!
Hunt them down, spin them back around to their own countries.

“If they keep crossing the border and you cannot arrest them, shoot them,” she said.

Yes indeed-dee Ms Festerling - that would quickly stop the invasion. It is hard line but so is raping women/boys/girls, beating up and robbing seniors in countries they are invading - on the dole too.