"If you don't get married you will end up like Saman Abbas." A 52-year-old Pakistani resident in Novellara, the same town in the Reggio Emilia area where the family of Saman Abbas, the 18-year-old killed in 2021, would have told his daughter in her early twenties.
For the man and his 37-year-old wife, the girl's stepmother, the Carabinieri enforced a ban on communicating and approaching the places frequented by the victim, who in 2021 was forced to marry a cousin remotely after she opposed marrying him in person .
Available for all electronic bracelet. Both spouses are liable for mistreatment, the man also for coercion or induction into marriage.
The girl lived in Novellara with her father, her father's wife and the brothers born from her father's second marriage, while her natural mother died in Pakistan when she was just born. A death officially due to natural causes, but the girl reportedly said that she had known that it would instead have been a murder at the hands of her uncle, her father's older brother. The investigators ascertained that the girl was not free to leave home , to look for a job, to have contact with the outside world, to continue her studies which were interrupted precisely on the occasion of the eighth grade exam, by her father's will. The adults told her that she was Muslim and that for this reason she had to behave appropriately , and above all not to trust the social workers who followed her.
She recently reported to social services that her father had suggested she leave for a trip to Pakistan and for this reason alone she accepted, out of fear for her own safety, placement in a community. She was afraid because in 2021 she had been forced by her father to marry a cousin she had never seen in person and believed to be her uncle's son. In Pakistan the wedding would have been physically celebrated.
(Unioneonline/D)