A large crowd showed up for an anti-Islam rally Monday in Dresden, where some protesters wore black ribbons to show their solidarity with the 17 victims of last week’s terror attacks in Paris.

The weekly anti-Islam rallies started last October and are being organized by a group called the Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West, or PEGIDA. Dresden police said they couldn’t yet give exact numbers for Monday night’s rally, but last week’s drew 18,000 people.

One of the organizers of the Dresden rally, Lutz Bachmann, told the crowds that “the terrible acts of Paris are further proof that PEGIDA is needed.”

Some marchers held up placards with the names of the French journalists killed by extremists in Paris. Others sported banners condemning the “lying press” that they claimed misrepresents their cause. One poster showed Chancellor Angela Merkel wearing a headscarf.

One marcher, Markus Bauer of Bautzen, said he had come to express his disgust about what he called the “ruling class.”

“Wall Street controls them all. They are responsible for all the wars and people know that,” he said.

Yet in other cities across Germany, those attending counter protests urging that immigrants be welcomed and treated fairly far outnumbered the anti-Islam demonstrators.

Berlin police said 4,000 people demonstrated against an anti-Islam rally of 400 protesters. In Munich 20,000 people took to the streets to support tolerance and only 1,500 anti-Islam protesters showed up.