Dresden prosecutors said when they filed charges in October that, with the posts, Bachmann was trying to incite Germans against refugees. Bachmann co-founded PEGIDA, short for Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West, which has staged weekly protests in Dresden and spawned similar though less successful groups elsewhere.
Bachmann, who disputes the authenticity of the Facebook posts, wrote that the trial was "purely politically motivated" and meant to discredit him and PEGIDA.
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