World Bulletin / News Desk

Thousands of Egyptians mourned on Monday the victim of German hate crime who was a pregnant Egyptian woman, during her funeral in Alexandria.

A 28-year old German man stabbed Marwa Sherbini 18 times in Dresden courthouse before she gives evidence against court appeal.

Marwa Sherbini, a 32-year-old Egyptian national was suing her attacker after he insulted her for wearing the Islamic headscarf.

Some thousands of Egyptians surround the coffin of 32-year old pregnant Egyptian woman Marwa el-Sherbini, Monday July 6, 2009, who was stabbed by a German man in a courtroom in eastern Germany last week, during her funeral in Alexandria, Egypt.

They carried Korans chanting slogans against hate crimes while they were demonstrating near the mosque where the body of Sherbini, 32, killed in a Dresden courthouse wass carried away for burial.

Marwa took her 3-year old son Mostapha to play in a Dresden park. A German man, identified only as Axel W, insulted her because of wearing headscarf and called her a "terrorist". She filed a case against him in German courts after the incident.

When she won the case and the court fined him the €780 for having abused her. But German man appealed against the verdict, German media said.

Also, her husband and her son were present in the court room. When the assailant attacked Marwa her husband ran to rescue her. But the assailant stabbed him 3 times. Meanwhile, a German security officer in court shot the husband in the leg too.

Medics were unable to save Ms Sherbini who was three months pregnant with her second child, BBC reported.

The husband Elwy Okaz lapsed into a coma and was taken to hospital suffering from serious injuries to the stomach and liver.

Human right activists carried Sunday evening night messages defending the Muslim dress at Cairo airport while they are waiting for the body.