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Verdict against el-Shirbini murder not satisfactory, says Tehran
Nov 11, 2009, 17:16 GMT
Tehran - Iran's ambassador to Germany called guilty verdict and life imprisonment sentence passed on the murderer of Egyptian Marwa el-Shirbini on Wednesday as 'not ... satisfactory.'
'The verdict seems not to have been satisfactory for the deceased's family members because they also demanded punishment of those who allowed the killer to enter a courtroom with a cold weapon (knife),' Iranian ambassador Ali-Reza Sheikh-Attar told IRNA.
During a court session in Dresden last July, the defendant Alex W. stabbed el-Shirbini 18 times, and also knifed her husband when he rushed to save his wife.
The Dresden court said Wednesday that the motive of the convicted killer was hatred of foreigners and eventually sentenced him to life in prison.
'The main question is still how such an incident could happen in a courtroom. If the German courtrooms remained unsafe, then no secure court sessions could ever be held,' ambassador Sheikh-Attar said.
Tehran had accused the German government of engineering the death of the 31-year-old pregnant Egyptian pharmacist, an allegation which Berlin rejected as 'absurd.'
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad even demanded that the United Nations place sanctions on Germany as a result of the murder, which created an uproar in several Muslim countries.
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