“Kieken, I can not smell or see you!”: masks fall off when Pegida protesters see colored VRT journalist
Pegida, the anti-Islam movement that came to us from Germany, has a very rancid side. Danira Boukhriss, a young VRT reporter who followed the Pegida-demonstration in Ghent for a report, got the full brunt of a demonstrator. “monkey” en “zwartzak” she was told. and thereafter, as she appeals to the man in question: “I am not a racist, kieken. I just do not smell or see.”