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German foreign minister welcomes verdict in el-Shirbini murder case
Nov 11, 2009, 17:44 GMT
London - The 'clear and independent' verdict of life imprisonment for the courtroom murder of a pregnant Egyptian women in Germany was welcomed by Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle Wednesday.
Speaking at a news conference during an introductory visit to London, Westerwelle said the life sentence passed by a Dresden court showed that 'violence and racial hatred' had no place in German society.
The sentence was of 'international significance,' said Westerwelle.
The court ruled earlier Wednesday that Aleksandr Wiens, a German of Russian origin, was motivated by hatred of foreigners when he stabbed 31-year-old Marwa el-Shirbini to death in the same Dresden courtroom last July.
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