Riots in Germany after the
racist killing of Egyptian Marwa El Sherbini
Hundreds of Egyptians
demonstrated in Germany after the racist killing of Marwa El
Sherbini who was 3 months pregnant. The crime supports the theory
that racism is still very much alive in Germany especially since the
German media totally neglected the incident not to mention the
German judicial website. A German man outside of a Dresden, Germany,
courtroom stabbed a 32-year-old Egyptian woman to death on Wednesday
after she had won a defamation case against the man, Egypt’s Youm El
Saba’a newspaper reported late Thursday. According to security
sources in the German city, Marwa Al Sherbini, was stabbed. Local
news reported that Sherbini was three-months pregnant at the time.
Her husband, who was finishing a scholarship at a German institute
in genetics, was also shot outside the court, moments after the
verdict had been handed down. Reports say police shot him
accidentally. It is unclear his status, with some reporting he was
killed and others saying he is in critical condition. Sherbini had
filed a case against her killer, Alex, a 28-year unemployed German
of Russian descent, in August 2008, after he had called her a
“terrorist” on a Dresden street because she wears the higab – the
Islamic headscarf that covers the hair. The murder comes as Europe
is in the midst of a battle over what Muslim women can wear. French
President Nicolas Sarkozy said recently that the Niqab – the full
covering of the face – is “not welcome in France.
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