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Egyptian killed in German court is buried at home (1st Lead)
Jul 6, 2009, 10:36 GMT
Thousands of people are carrying the Coffin of Egyptian Marwa El Sherbiny in Alexandria, Egypt, on 06 July. The Egyptian victim Marwa El Sherbiny was stabbed to death by the defendant in a at a courtroom in Dresden, Germany on 01 July 2009. The stabbing happened shortly before the woman, aged 32, was to give evidence in an appeal lodged by the man against a conviction for insulting behaviour. EPA/ALEXANDER TOMAS
Cairo/Berlin - The Egyptian woman who was stabbed to death by a man described as 'a fanatical racist' in a German court last week was buried Monday in Egypt, where the murder has caused shock and outrage.
Marwa al-Shirbini, 31, was stabbed 18 times by a German man of Russian descent as she was about to give evidence against him in an appeal case in Dresden.
She was three months pregnant with her second child. Her 3-year- old son, Mustapha, witnessed the knife attack in which her husband Elwy Okaz tried to fend off the attacker.
Her attacker had earlier been fined 750 euros (1,050 dollars) for insulting al-Shirbini at a playground in 2008. She filed charges after he called her a 'terrorist,' apparently because she was wearing a headscarf.
Prosecutors are preparing murder charges against the man, whom they described as 'a fanatical racist.'
In Egypt, newspapers have dubbed al-Shirbini 'the martyr of the veil.' Her funeral took place in Alexandria, with Senior Egyptian officials in attendance, according to reports.
Germany's ambassador Bernd Erbel and several senior Egyptian diplomats and officials supported al-Shirbini's family at Cairo Airport when her body was flown in from Germany late Sunday. A small crowd of people also gathered at the airport, some carrying signs saying 'an innocent killed.'
Calls for a general boycott of German goods to protest 'Nazi hate against Muslims' have appeared on Egyptian online forums and social- networking sites in recent days.
Pharmacists from Alexandria have called for a week-long boycott of German medicines, a leading member of their professional syndicate said in remarks carried by the website of Egypt's leading opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Brotherhood said it was considering organizing protests in front of the German consulate in Alexandria, and that members would raise the issue in Parliament.
Internet users were divided over the utility of a boycott of German products and companies.
'Please join for the sake of Islam; protecting (the) hijab,' one proponent said on the social-networking site Facebook. 'It could be me and my wife.'
A woman said she thought a boycott was the wrong approach. 'I think we should go on with calling for our rights ... through all ... legal measures against the (German) government,' she said.
'Marwa had the right to be protected as a witness in a court ... The German government is responsible for her death,' she continued, calling for protesters to take their case to the German news media, which she said had 'ignored' the case.
Okaz, described Monday how he was unable to help his wife fend off the attacker.
'Marwa is dead and I couldn`t save her,' the 32-year-old, told Germany's mass-circulation newspaper Bild in the hospital where he is recovering from wounds suffered in the frenzied attack.
Okaz suffered serious injuries to his lungs and liver in the July 1 attack, and was also shot in the leg by a policeman who tried to overpower the assailant.
'I`m so angry that the policeman`s bullet hit me and not the killer,' said, Okaz, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute.
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THE ALL PEOPLE IN THE WORLD HAVE TO (THINK):
1- how the attacker has the time to stabe 18 times inside the court?
2- how the attacker has the time to stabe the husband also inside the court room ?
3- who is the terrorist the attacker or the moslem wife and her husband ?
4- is the all german people are terrorists ? ABSOLUTLY NO
5- is the religion of the german people advice them to kill the others?ABSOLUTLY NO
6- is the freedome in the west for the western people only?
7- is the justice in the west for the western people only?
FINALLY THE THE TERRORISTS HAVE NO SPECIFIC COUNTRY AND HAVE NO SPECIFIC RELIGION.
THE ALL PEOPLE IN THE WORLD HAVE TO (THINK):
1- how the attacker has the time to stabe 18 times inside the court?
2- how the attacker has the time to stabe the husband also inside the court room ?
3- who is the terrorist the attacker or the moslem wife and her husband ?
4- is the all german people are terrorists ? ABSOLUTLY NO
5- is the religion of the german people advice them to kill the others?ABSOLUTLY NO
6- is the freedome in the west for the western people only?
7- is the justice in the west for the western people only?
FINALLY THE THE TERRORISTS HAVE NO SPECIFIC COUNTRY AND HAVE NO SPECIFIC RELIGION.
NOW, THE ALL PEOPLE IN THE WORLD HAVE TO THINK
1- HOW THE ATTACKER HAS THE TIME TO STAB THE WOMAN 18 TIMES IN THE PRESENCE OF POLICE AND INSID THE COURT ROOM ?
2- HOW THE ATTACKER HAS THE TIME ALSO TO STAB THE HUSBAND IN THE SAME TIME AND INSIDE THE COURT ROOM ?
3- HOW THE GERMAN POLICE MAN FIRED THE HUSBAND INSTEAD OF THE ATTACKER ? 4- ARE THE TERRORISTS THE MOSLEM WIFE AND HER HUSBAND ?
5- ARE THE TERRORISTS THE GERMAN PEOPLE ? ABSOLUTLY NO & NO
6- ARE THE RELIGION OF THE GERMAN PEOPLE ADVICE THEM TO KILL THE OTHERS ? ABSOLUTLY NO & NO
7- ARE THE ISLAM & ALL MOSLEMS STILL THE TERRORISTS IN THIS WORLD ?
8- IS THE JUSTICE IN THE WORLD FOR THE WESTERN PEOPLE ONLY ?
9- IS THE FREEDOME IN THE WEST FOR THE WESTERN PEOPLE ONLY ?
10- WHAT IS THE TERRORISTS COUNTRY & RELIGION ? NO COUNTRY & NO RELIGION FOR THE TERRORISTS
THE ALL PEOPLE IN THE WORLD HAVE TO THINK AND HAVE TO RESPECT THE JUSTICE. THINK.....THINK.....THINK.....THINK....THINK....THINK....THINK....THINK
When a foreigner is killed in Egypt, That's terrorism as the damn Egyptian Muslims are all terrorists... Meanwhile, when an Egyptian young 'Pregnant' woman is killed in Germany, that was a fanatic racist, and definitely definitely it's a 'Single Case'!!!!
Wake up yo people in the outside world, the worst thing on earth is to tell lies, and then you tend to 'Believe It'!!!
no dout the killer will go to hell.this kind of accident with muslim happens all the time in germany last year the german police killed an pakistani in jail.theis cases are black labels on german face shame to you german police sham shame shame
instead of protecting the victims the german police rather shot at them coz they happened to be muslims and dont have blond hair and blue eyes. germans are racists by nature
Hi to all people on the world
wonderful:
1-killing in the court
2-three months pregnant whom killed
3-in the germany
4-was stabbed 18 times(need many time
5-there is not any police there?
6-killer called her a 'terrorist
7-Her 3-year- old son, Mustapha witnessed the knife attack
8-her husband Elwy Okaz tried to fend off the attaker(but police shot him we have in news)
I coudn't say anything' only sorry' for human kind in this century and invite me and all people to more thinking about this subjects.
peace and secure for all.
This is just a consequence of what western media prepared for; the media has been making of Islam as a devilish religion; now by insulting the prophet (PUH); then by abolishing the veil here and there in public places; and now we can see a simple dispute turning to a tragedy; is there a justice that can treat all religious the same way?
no; we can't say that 'germans are racists by nature'; this is an 'amalgame' that can't be accepted; the same way we can't say all muslims are terrorists.
Bloody Democracy !!!
They kill a 3 months pregnant lady who already has a 3 years old child!!!!!!
the bloody police officers shot the husband , who was going to try to help her !!!!!!!
She got stabbed 18 times in a bloody court , but no body tried to help her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The only person who tried to help her was her husband , but He got Shot by the police officer !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Man kind have to be proud of this job !!!!!! ????????????
How could this happen in a courth ????? Why he should carry a knife in the court???????
Why the man was such close to the lady , that no body could stop him ??
Why , Why Why and...........
Where are the media ?
could we call us human ? No , I don't so , I can't !!
I am in west , but no body talks about that !!
No body even knows about that , why because she was wearing Hejab !!!!!
What about the Baby? Shame Shame Shame on us if we think this way !!!
German is German in all means because they have HITLER in their ancestors.....GERMANS TO BE HATED BY ALL MEANS
Why they object about what a Muslim Women wears?.........As they are becoming poor and poor because their women’s have shortage of money to buy clothes for themselves so they prefer not to wear anything.......POOR GERMNS
But we Muslim women’s are more rich in our heritage in our culture and in our Values as we won't bend in front of any rule..Because we are BRAVE and it’s because of our Religious Spirit....
IF GERMANY HAVE SHORTAGE OF CLOTHS HE CAN BEG TO MUSLIM WORLD .....WE WILL DONATE THEM SO THEY CAN COVER THERE POOR WOMENS>>>>>>> AS THERE IS NO NEED TO Snatch FROM OUR WOMEN’S......
THIS IS NOT CALLED TERRIORISM WHICH IS DONE IN GERMAN COURT BUT IT’S JUSTICE..........WHO THE HELL SAY ITS A FALSE STORY .....HE IS BLIND BY ALL MEANS WHO DISBLEIVE IN OUR STRENGTH WHICH A SINGLE LADY SHOWED IN SO CALLED GERMAN COURT...........WHICH IS NOT MADE FOR JUSTICE AT ALL...
SHAME ON YOU GERMANS YOU HAVE ONCE AGAIN PROOF THAT YOU BELONGS TO HITLER...
I believe the government officials present in the court at that time including the judge, security, and others should be hanged to death. German government has proved that German is a third class nation. The killer should be killed the same way as he killed that innocent lady. ALLAH's 'laanat' on German government calling all muslims terrorists and themselves the biggest terrorist of all times.
Wat this shows is the callousness and cold-heartedness of the west towards the Muslims of this world. I am shocked and thinking as to why this news is not all over the media. Well i'll tell you why the media is not giving it a bigger coverage. Its because it was a Muslim who was murdered. Bloody Germans. Germans SUCK. Low Life Scum Of The Earth. Shame on German Government and its Institutions. Shame on German Media and their police and so called justice system.
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WatsonJul 6th, 2009 - 23:56:02
It is amazing that in a court room someone being prosecuted was able to stab someone. Let only stab someone 18 times. Major fail on the part of the German police.
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