BERLIN (Sputnik) — The German newspaper Die Welt reported, citing political sources, that between 6,000 and 8,000 people gathered in the capital of the German state of Saxony at the Pegida rally on Monday.
On the same day, up to 4,000 Pegida opponents gathered near Dresden's opera house, the Semperoper, where Pegida had previously held rallies.
Opponents of the anti-immigration right-wing movement PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West) gather in Dresden, Germany
© REUTERS / Hannibal Hanschke
24 November 2015, 16:54 GMT
Water cannons and police officers from other regions were deployed in Dresden to deal with possible clashes between the two groups, however, no accidents took place.
Pegida, an acronym for Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West, began organizing rallies in its home city of Dresden in October 2014, attracting hundreds, and later thousands, of supporters.
