Egypt''s Ambassador to Germany to Al-Masry Al-Youm: the Embassy is Following up on Marwa El-Sherbini Killing; Her Family to Take Body Back to Egypt Today

Egypt's Ambassador to Germany, Ramzi Ezz Eddine, gave an exclusive interview to Al-Masry Al-Youm yesterday. He said the embassy is following up on the killing of Marwa El-Sherbini, the wife of the Egyptian envoy Elwi Ali Okaz.
Mr. Okaz is employed at the Institute of Genetic Engineering at Menoufia University and was granted a scholarship by the Max Planck Institute.
She was killed and he was injured by a German inside Dresden Court.
 
Ambassador Ezz Eddine added that the embassy has formed a team to follow up on the incident and its repercussions, that it will sue the German of murder and that it will follow the litigation procedures.
According to these procedures, the victim's 3-year-old son is going to receive compensations, a very common custom in the German Law.
He then added that the German authorities have refused to hand over the child to the embassy and instead left him in a care center until some of his relatives go taking him.
He pointed out that the German authorities should hand over the child and the body of his mother to his uncle and aunt.
 
He went on to say that the Egyptian envoy's injuries were quite critical, adding that he was stabbed three times in the abdomen and that a policeman shot him in the leg by mistake while trying to hold the accused.
 
Regarding the political orientations of the accused, Ezz Eddin said that the 28-year-old man, called Alex, was born in Russia from a family of German origins, and that the investigations have not found whether he has political orientations.
 
Ezz Eddine pointed out that Sayed Tagg Eddine, the cultural attaché of the Egyptian Embassy, went yesterday morning to calm the envoys and accompany the woman's relatives to the morgue to identify her body.
The attaché also made sure of her husband's health conditions at Dresden hospital.
Furthermore, the ambassador affirmed that the body will arrive in Cairo today in the morning on an Egypt Air plane if all the extradition procedures are carried out.
 
Her husband still does not know of the death of his wife and he is being treated at the intensive care unit. His general conditions are bad.
As for their son, the ambassador said that he is going through painful moments, as he was with his parents when the crime occurred, and that when the police handed him to a care center he was in panic.
Saxony Police Chief Bernd Merbitz told the press there was evidence suggesting that the crime might be due to xenophobia.
He also affirmed that the police seized the young man and that a policeman erroneously shot at the Egyptian envoy to try and prevent the crime.
He pointed out that the accused is being questioned to find the reasons behind this crime.
 
The details of this tragedy started last August, when the victim was at a children's playground and asked the accused to leave the swing to her son. The accused, though, insulted her and accused her of being a terrorist because she was wearing the headscarf.
The woman, proud of her religion, sued the boy at the court of the city where she was living and accused him of slandering, offending and accusing her of being a terrorist.
The court fined the young man €750, but, provoked by the sentence, he filed an appeal. While the woman and her husband were following the litigation procedures, the man was laying in ambush. He took his knife and stabbed her to death while injuring her husband in the abdomen three times.
The German police intervened, but one of them shot at his leg, making him unconscious next to his dead wife.