DRESDEN, Germany (AFP) – A man accused of killing a pregnant Egyptian woman in court in a frenzied anti-Islamic attack goes on trial in Germany Monday in a case that inflamed tempers throughout the Muslim world.
Prosecutors say the defendant, identified according to German legal practice only as Alex W., stabbed Marwa al-Sherbini at least 16 times in three minutes on July 1, in the same courthouse where his three-week trial will be held. Some 200 police officers will guard the proceedings this time in the eastern city of Dresden, as German media reported Internet death threats against the defendant, who will appear in court behind bulletproof glass.
The 28-year-old Russian-born German allegedly plunged an 18-cm (seven-inch) kitchen knife into the chest, back and arm of Sherbini, 31, who was three months pregnant at the time with her second child. She bled to death at the scene in the presence of her son Mustafa, aged three and a half at the time, in what prosecutors say in the charge sheet was a killing motivated by “a pronounced hatred of non-Europeans and Muslims”.
Town grieves for slainin priest
CHATHAM, New Jersey (AP) -- An arrest in the brutal slaying of a Roman Catholic priest has brought little solace to his parishioners in this affluent community, who widely view the suspected role of the long-time church janitor as a second tragedy.
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