Cairo - In a fresh attack on Coptic Christians, an Egyptian policeman killed a 71-year-old man. According to the Interior Ministry in Cairo shot the offender on Tuesday in a train near the city of Assiut, south of Cairo around. In the attack on the train was hurt, the policeman with his service weapon also five people, including at least four Coptic Christians, said the interior ministry.The identity of the fifth victim had not yet resolved. There are reports, however, have traded him for a Copt. Meanwhile, representatives of the security authorities had spoken of seven wounded. The attacker climbed, according to security forces in the town of Samalut on the train to Cairo and was arrested after the fact.
He'll questioned his motive was still unclear, it said. Also on the possible anti-Christian background could still no claim is made. New Year's Eve were in a bomb attack on a Coptic church in the Egyptian city of Alexandria a few days before the Coptic Christmas, 21 people were killed, 80 others were injured.
The attack had caused worldwide consternation. The Copts are the largest Christian denomination in the Middle East and accounts for up to ten percent of Egypt's 80 million inhabitants. The government in Cairo called for criticism of Pope Benedict XVI. to religiously motivated violence in the country its ambassador from the Vatican to "consultations" back.
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry in Cairo refused to tolerate "any unacceptable interference in internal affairs" of the country. The provisional dismissal of the Egyptian ambassador takes place on the "new comments" of the Pope to "Koptenfrage," said a spokesman. Benedict XVI. had called on Monday for "effective measures to protect religious minorities." Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi told following the dismissal, the Vatican's foreign minister Dominique Mamberti had assured the ambassador before their departure from Rome in person, "the feelings of the entire Egyptian people" to share after the assassination of Alexandria.
The Vatican was anxious to "sectarian clashes and tensions" to prevent, said Lombardi.
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