Murder of Marwa El-Sherbini

By Jesse Russell

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles On 1 July 2009, Marwa Ali El-Sherbini (Egyptian Arabic: مروه على الشربينى), an Egyptian woman and German resident, was killed during an appeal hearing at a court of law in Dresden, Germany. She was stabbed by Alex Wiens an ethnic German immigrant from Russia, against whom she had testified in a criminal case for verbal abuse. El-Sherbini's husband, who was present at the hearing, tried to intervene and was mistakenly shot by a police officer who was called to the court room. Wiens was arrested at the crime scene and subsequently tried for murder and attempted murder. He was found guilty of both charges, with the verdict qualifying the murder of El-Sherbin as a heinous crime because it was committed in front of a child, while attacking another person who tried to intervene. The judge stated that the perpetrator was motivated by hostility and prejudice against a race and religion. Wien was sentenced to life imprisonment.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 5510664843
• ISBN13: 9785510664843
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Book on Demand Ltd.
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"