Supporters of the Pegida movement march to show their solidarity with the victims of the recent Paris terror attacks during their weekly march on 12 January 2015 in Dresden, Germany
Islamist terrorists are plotting to attack rallies held by Germany's pro-White Pegida movement, according to intelligence sources.
Foreign intelligence services have intercepted communications by "known international jihadists" planning strikes against those taking part in the rallies of the group, which aims to halt what it describes as the 'Islamification' of Europe, according to AFP and Der Spiegel reports.
The intelligence was passed to German authorities, with an unnamed and high-ranking security official telling Der Spiegel "we take these leads very seriously".
There was no specific intelligence on the time or location of an attack, according to the German magazine.
Numbers have swollen at rallies held by Pegida, or Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident, in recent months.
The group held its largest ever march in Dresden on Monday, in solidarity with the victims of the terrorist attacks in Paris, with 25,000 attending.
Starting with only a few hundred marchers in September, numbers at the Pegida's rallies have steadily grown.
