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Egyptian mum's murder: Merkel meets Mubarak to express sympathy
Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel has expressed her condolences to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak over the murder of a young Egyptian mother in a Dresden courtroom last week.
- AP
- Published: 16:16 July 10, 2009
Berlin: Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel has expressed her condolences to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak over the murder of a young Egyptian mother in a Dresden courtroom last week.
Merkel's spokesman Thomas Steg said on Friday the chancellor had brought up the killing of 32-year-old Marwa Al Sherbini during her meeting with Mubarak at the G8 summit in Italy on Thursday.
Al Sherbini was attacked by a Russian-born German during his trial on charges of insulting her with racial slurs.
The spokesman said that Merkel had also sent her top official for immigration affairs to visit the victim's husband, injured while trying to protect his wife from the attack, in hospital to personally bring him the condolences of the German government and people.
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