A/HRC/13/40/Add.1
actualisées sur la mise en œuvre sur le plan national des recommandations formulées suite à
ces visites.
87.
La Rapporteuse spéciale envoyait un tableau contenant les conclusions et
recommandations contenues dans le rapport de sa visite (E/CN.4/2006/5/Add.4) ainsi que
des informations supplémentaires contenues dans les documents pertinents des Nations
Unies en provenance notamment de l’Examen périodique universel du Conseil des droits de
l’homme, des Procédures spéciales et des Organes de Traités. La Rapporteuse spéciale
demandait au Gouvernement de bien vouloir lui parvenir des informations actualisées sur
l’attention donnée à ces recommandations, les mesures prises pour les mettre en œuvre et
les obstacles éventuels qui pourraient empêcher leur mise en œuvre. Ce tableau, y compris
toute information fournie par le Gouvernement, est placé sur le site web de la Rapporteuse
spéciale (www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/religion/visits.htm).
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Germany
Communication sent on 24 August 2009 jointly with the Special Rapporteur on
contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related
intolerance
Allegations transmitted to the Government
88.
The Special Rapporteurs brought to the attention of the Government information
they had received regarding the murder of Ms. Marwa Al Sherbini in a Dresden
courtroom. On 1 July 2009, Ms. Marwa Al Sherbini, a pregnant Muslim woman of Egyptian
origin, was stabbed 18 times by Mr. Alex W., a German of Russian origin, in a Dresden
courtroom, in front of her husband, her 3 year-old son, judges and other witnesses.
89.
Following an incident in a public park in Dresden in August 2008 where Mr. Alex
W. called Ms. Marwa Al Sherbini, who wore a headscarf, an “Islamist” and a “terrorist”
when she asked him to make room for her son on the playground swings, the first instance
court of Dresden (Amtsgericht) found Mr. Alex W. guilty of slander. A 780 Euros fine was
issued against him. However, during the trial, Mr. Alex W. claimed mitigating
circumstances for the act of insulting Ms. Marwa Al Sherbini and suggested that “people
like her” were not real humans and therefore could not be insulted. In addition, he told Ms.
Marwa Al Sherbini that “you don’t have the right to live here”. Consequently, the Public
Prosecutor appealed the verdict of the first instance court in order to get a harsher sentence
for the openly xenophobic words of Mr. Alex W.
90.
At the appeal trial in the second instance court of Dresden (Landgericht), Mr. Alex
W, reportedly asked Ms. Marwa Al Sherbini: “Do you have a right to be in Germany at
all?”. He then would have warned her that: “When the NPD [National Democratic Party]
comes to power, there will be an end to that”. After Ms. Marwa Al Sherbini had testified,
Mr. Alex W. lept in the courtroom to stab her with a knife killing her, while allegedly
shouting “You don't deserve to live”. He also stabbed the husband of Ms. Marwa Al
Sherbini, Mr. Elwi Okaz, who was critically wounded after he tried to defend her against
Mr. Alex W. The police officer, who was called to intervene, mistook Mr. Okaz for the
attacker and shot him in the leg.
91.
Mr. Alex W. is now reportedly held on remand on suspicion of murder of Ms.
Marwa Al Sherbini and attempted murder of Mr. Okaz. Condolences to the family of Ms.
Marwa Al Sherbini and public apologies have been expressed by the German authorities,
including by the Chancellor. On 10 July 2009, the Federal Foreign Minister also sent a letter
to the Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs, where he said that “we are committed to
ensuring that every person in Germany feels safe, regardless of their background,
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