ANTI-FASCISTS demonstrated outside the German embassy in London yesterday in solidarity with protests in Germany against the right-wing, racist and Islamophobic Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Western World (Pegida) movement.

Thousands joined the mobilisation which has united openly nazi organisations in Germany.

The London demonstration was organised by Unite Against Fascism (UAF), whose joint secretary Sabby Dhalu said: “After the death and destruction of the second world war and the horrors of the Holocaust under nazi Germany, the whole world said never again.

“It is particularly crucial at this point in time in the aftermath of the Paris attacks, when some are wrongly trying to implicate the entire global Muslim community for the actions of a tiny minority and far-right and fascist groups are using the attacks to build support.”

UAF joint secretary Weyman Bennet compared the Pegida street movement in Germany to the English Defence League.