Supporters of the anti-Islam protest group Pegida in Germany have complained about images of non-white children appeared on Kinder chocolate bar packets.

A Pegida Facebook page in Baden-Wuerttemberg asked: “Is this a joke?”

However, when they were told that these were photos of Germany’s footballers when they were younger, they admitted they had “dived into a wasps’ nest”, as BBC reports.

Kinder said it would not tolerate “xenophobia or discrimination”.

Kinder bars usually have an image of a blonde-haired, blue-eyed boy, but the company decided to change that as part of a marketing campaign ahead of the Euro 2016 football tournament and started to use photographs of the German team’s players when they were children.