Ambassador Ahmed Rizk, Assistant Foreign Minister for Consular Affairs and Egyptians abroad, has declared that the body of the Egyptian woman – the headscarf victim - Marwa El-Sherbini will arrive in Cairo at 8 p.m. today on an Egyptian plane accompanied by her brother and her 3-year-old son. She was killed in the German city of Dresden by a German citizen of Russian origins.
Speaking to the press yesterday, Ambassador Rizk said that Egypt's Foreign Minister, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, is constantly keeping abreast with this incident and has entrusted the ministry's consular section and the Egyptian Ambassador in Berlin with following up on the case with the German authorities and the German embassy in Cairo. He pointed out that the German Minister of Justice phoned the Egyptian Ambassador in Berlin, Ramzi Ezz Eddine, and told him he was deeply troubled by the incident. He also said it seems, as affirmed by the German media, that the aggressor was driven to committing this crime by xenophobia. Rizk said the Egyptian Ambassador in Berlin has visited the victim's husband - the Egyptian envoy Elwi Ali Okaz - at Dresden University Hospital and said his condition was constantly improving. Mr. Okaz was also stabbed several times by the aggressor.
Dr. Mohammed Gaber Abou Ali, head of the cultural affairs and missions sector at the Egyptian Ministry of Higher Education, said the victim's relatives will not receive the forensic report on the incident because the death was criminal, and said they will just receive the body to bury it and hold the funeral. As for the report, he said that it will be handed over to the Egyptian embassy during the next few days, and that it will be followed up by the embassy itself and the German authorities. Gaber said Dr. Okaz has woken up from the coma, is recovering, has learnt about the death of his wife, talked about the incident and agreed to his only child Mostafa being handed over to his sister. The German authorities had refused to give the child to the Egyptian embassy as the German law forbids handing over children to anyone without their parent's permission.
