Berlin - German police say two drunken youths have been arrested after damaging a memorial to an Egyptian woman stabbed to death last year.
Police said the two, aged 18 and 20-years-old, had pushed the memorial over shortly after midnight Thursday.
They say the suspects considered themselves left-wing and said they were upset that people killed in Afghanistan get little attention whereas the memorial received publicity.
A local group had recently erected an installation called "18 stabs" in memory of Marwa al-Sherbini, a 31-year-old pharmacist killed in July 2009 in the city of Dresden by a Russian-born German. The memorial has been vandalized before. - Sapa-AP