GERMANS HONOUR SLAIN 'ROLE MODEL' TUGCE ALBAYRAK (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Sunday, November 30, 2014, 13:09

Tributes are being paid in Germany to student Tugce Albayrak who was killed after defending two teenage girls reportedly being harassed by a group of men.

Around 150 people attended a vigil in Berlin in her memory on Sunday.

President Joachim Gauck has described the student as a "role model".

A man, 18, is in custody over the 15 November attack, which left Ms Albayrak in a coma. Her life support was switched off on Friday.

She had intervened when she heard cries for help from the toilet of a fast food restaurant in the town of Offenbach, near Frankfurt, where the two girls were being harassed, German media report.

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