Dresden, Germany - A German prosecutor demanded Monday that judges sentence a self-avowed racist to life in prison without easy parole for stabbing a pregnant Egyptian pharmacist to death. In his summation, senior prosecutor Frank Heinrich said Alex ...
A new synagogue in Dresden was vandalised on the eve of the 71st anniversary of Kristallnacht and as Germany celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the JTA reports. Aan outer wall of the synagogue’s community centre was marked with large, black swastikas and hate slogans sometime late Saturday night. Police are investigating the crime as likely having right-wing extremist...
Dresden, Germany - A German prosecutor demanded Monday that judges sentence a self-avowed racist to life in prison without automatic parole for stabbing a pregnant Egyptian pharmacist to death. In his summation, senior prosecutor Frank Heinrich said ...
It is still Sunday in Alaska, but in Berlin it is the 20th anniversary of the breach of the Berlin Wall. On November 9th, 1989: After several weeks of civil unrest, that all GDR citizens could visit West Germany and West Berlin. Crowds of East Germans climbed onto and crossed the wall, joined by West Germans on the other side in a celebratory atmosphere. Over the next few weeks, parts of the wall were...
It’s twenty years now since a great tsunami swept across Eastern Europe, smashing the Berlin Wall with huge force, smashing the communist certainties. Of course I never knew the old Germany, that part of Europe frozen in ideological permafrost, but I’ve heard stories. Father used to travel to what was called the German Democratic Republic on business, staying in Dresden, Leipzig and Berlin....
Remembering the events that brought about the fall of the Berlin Wall On November 9, 2009, Germans will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Twenty years ago on October 7, 1989, the 40th anniversary of the German Democratic Republic (AKA East Germany), the communist leadership wanted adulation, but the people offered defiance. The East Germans were supposed to be celebrating...
Dresden, Germany - A German admitted Wednesday that he killed an Egyptian woman and wounded her husband with a knife in a courtroom, claiming he did so because he was under stress and not because of his racist views. Alex W, aged 28, offered no apo...
Dresden,Germany - Alex W, on trial for the courtroom killing of a pregnant Egyptian woman in July, was agitated and aggressive toward his victim during their initial encounter, a Dresden court heard on Monday. One witness said the 28 year-o...
Dresden, Germany - Germany's high-profile trial of a man accused of the courtroom killing of a pregnant Egyptian woman heard on Monday from witnesses to the racial attack which triggered the original court case. Marwa al-Shribini was stabbed to death...
Dresden, Germany - Character evidence is to be heard this week at the trial in Germany for the courtroom murder of pregnant Egyptian woman Marwa al-Shirbini, with a psychologist expected to explain that the accused is eccentric but sane. A policeman ...
Dresden, Germany - Relatives of the Egyptian woman stabbed to death in a Dresden courtroom are seeking compensation from Germany, a lawyer for the family said Thursday. Both the family of Marwa al-Shirbini and relatives of her husband have been holdi...
Dresden, Germany - The man accused of the courtroom murder of pregnant Egyptian woman Marwa al-Shirbini flipped out on the third day of his trial in the east German city of Dresden on Wednesday. Alex W, banged his head on the table, stamped his feet ...
Dresden, Germany - The man on trial for the murder of pregnant Egyptian woman Marwa al-Shirbini in a German courtroom, struck at his victim as though he was berserk, judge Tom Maciejewski said on Tuesday. Testifying on the second day of the trial, ...
DRESDEN, Germany - The husband of a pregnant Egyptian woman knifed to death in a German courtroom testified Monday that the alleged attacker continued stabbing his wife even...