A delegation from the Czech Republic traveled to Dresden on Monday night to take part in the first-anniversary PEGIDA rally in the Theaterplatz. The group included Marek Cernoch, a member of the Czech Parliament, who was one of the featured speakers. On the way back to their bus after the rally, the Czechs were ambushed by a mob of “anti-fascists”. Mr. Cernoch was one of those injured during the attack.

Below is a news report about the incident from Czech Independent TV. Many thanks to Xanthippa for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Transcript:

04:00 Let us start our first news item.

04:05 Roughed-up Czech delegation returned from a PEGIDA event and

04:09 and MP was almost taken out by a paving stone, because the ‘Sunshiners’ [Kumbaya-singing thug-huggers]

04:13 that is, German ‘Sunshiners’ were reportedly spitting and throwing

04:18 bottles. It was a close call, and the ‘Usvit’ party MP Marek Cernoch

04:22 ended up in a Dresden hospital. Let us

04:26 see and hear his testimony.

04:31 [introduction of Marek Cernoch in German]

04:36 From the anti-Islam party.

04:50 Good evening, Dresden!

04:58 [greeting in German]

05:07 I would like to tell all the so-called ‘Sunshiners’ and

05:12 ’Truthiness-lovers’ that when we were returning from a totally peaceful

05:17 demonstration by PEGIDA,

05:22 when we were returning to our bus, we were attacked by ‘Truthiness-lovers’.

05:27 They attacked us with some spray. I don’t know if it was pepper spray

05:31 or some other spray. Nonetheless, I immediately lost my sight.

05:36 And before I managed to get away

05:41 I was also hit by a paving stone on the back.

05:45 It was a really close call. Had I not bent over after I was hit with that spray,

05:49 I would have been hit by that paving stone [dropped] from a bridge

05:53 directly in on my head. And this is the way

05:57 the ‘Truthiness-lovers’ and ‘Sunshiners’ are fighting against a totally peaceful demonstration

06:02 where there were no gallows

06:06 or anything like that. We just said that we don’t want to destroy

06:11 our Europe by those large immigration waves

06:15 that are coming here.

06:24 Except that was not the only attack with which Czechs

06:29 had met in Dresden. For example, Radim Labcik, who planned to get

06:33 footage for a student film. He said: “I was taking shots

06:38 of mounted police. They approached me – this group of men with the look of

06:42 soccer fans, jerseys, scarves over the their mouths. I know that the first hit

06:47 I received came from a man in a red jersey and his face

06:51 was covered by red scarf. They knocked me down from my perch, then they

06:55 luckily just went after my tech,” stated Labcik. His technical equipment

07:00 was partly lost. He said: “They wrestled away my sound boom and smashed it into 4 pieces.

07:04 Next, they went after my camera. I thought they would destroy it, but they just stole it and left.

07:09 They just wanted to destroy as much of my tech as they could. They smashed

07:13 my recorder, stepped on my microphone, but it looks like it will work.”

07:17 ”The police said I could have ended up much worse,

07:21 if I get into PEGIDA’s path, so I should not be surprised.

07:26 But it was not PEGIDA [who attacked me], perhaps some neo-Nazis.

07:30 I have a broken knee, elbow, and I was hit with brass knuckles

07:35 in the head. Among supporters and opponents of immigration there were skirmishes.

07:39 According mainstream media, about 20,000 people came to the demonstration.

07:43 But, according to members of the movement ‘Usvit’, it was 50,000. What is certain

07:48 is that there were almost 1,000 police. In this location, both the supporters

07:52 and opponents of immigration met and some skirmishes took place between them.

07:56 Firecrackers(?) and paving stones were thrown and one person had to be transported

08:00 to hospital with a serious injury. The gathering of

08:05 Patriotic Europeans Against Islamisation of The West, that is PEGIDA, took place

08:09 to mark the first anniversary of the founding of this movement.

08:13 The Czech media inform us

08:17 about ‘everything’, but if it concerns any

08:21 protest against the policies of the EU, they are silent. So, we are asking

08:26 Where is their objectivity? As I said in the introduction,

08:30 outside our borders, mass demonstrations are taking place, of course,

08:35 there is silence about it.

08:39 That is why, into today’s coverage, I included a report from

08:43 Dresden, on the 12th of October, so you could see for yourself exactly what

08:47 happened there.

08:52 I went to the PEGIDA demonstration in Dresden.

09:01 This is before the demonstration started

09:11 and people are just arriving.

09:28 The demonstration has started. The square is truly filled with people.

09:38 Notice who they are.

09:42 No radicals,

09:46 just ‘regular’ people, who had been betrayed by their government.

09:54 Now a shot from another angle.

09:59 Just in case someone wanted to claim

10:04 that not that many people were there.

10:28 Part of the event was a march through the city.

10:33 Please, excuse the poor video quality.

10:41 At the event, one could see various flags.

10:50 We even found a group from the CR [Czech Republic]!

11:23 I’ll speed it up a bit

11:27 there really were a lot of people.

11:54 Why did I film all of it?

12:03 Because in surrounding states

12:07 thousands of people are demonstrating

12:16 against EU policies

12:20 and our media in the CR

12:29 DO NOT INFORM us about it.

12:38 Take more of an interest in what is happening in our society!

12:42 Write to Czech TV,

12:47 that TV which you pay for with your taxes,

12:52 that you want more information about these events.

13:14 The procession had returned back to the town square.

13:23 These people came together

13:28 because they are not indifferent

13:33 to the fate of their country,

13:38 and in what conditions their children will have to live.