Berlin, July 12: German prosecutors have banned publication of ‘facts’ that relate to the brutal murder of a Muslim Egyptian woman who was stabbed in a Dresden court.
The decision was made after the German Focus Magazine reported that the murderer had planned to stab Marwa El-Sherbini before he walked into the courthouse, spokesman for the German Prosecutor’s office Christian Avenarius said.
Two weeks ago, the attacker stabbed Marwa El-Sherbini 18 times in front of her 3-year-old son, as she tried to testify against him.
El-Sherbini, dubbed the “Hijab martyr,” was involved in a court case against the man, Axel W., who was found guilty of insulting and abusing the woman last November, after calling her a “terrorist” and pulling her scarf away. .
She was set to testify against Axel W. when he stabbed her 18 times inside the Dresden court.
El-Sherbini’s husband, Elvi Ali Okaz, also suffered serious injuries while trying to save his wife, who was pregnant, when the police mistook him for the attacker and shot him in the leg.
El-Sherbini’s death has created outrage in the Islamic world, with Muslims in various countries staging protests to condemn the hate crime.
Earlier, El-Sherbini’s brother, Tarek, told Press TV that a German newspaper and a TV station interviewed him when he was in Germany to receive his sister’s body but none of the interviews were published or broadcast in the country.
—–Agencies