When just over a month had passed since the disappearance of Saman Abbas , who vanished into thin air in Novellara, in the Reggiano region, on the night of April 30, 2021, the 18-year-old's father had confessed to being the perpetrator of the murder. And he had done so during a phone call to a relative in Italy: " I killed my daughter ," he said on June 8. The conversation had been intercepted and is now in the proceedings of the trial that will begin in February against the young woman's family members. According to investigators, Saman was killed because she refused to marry a cousin in her country of origin, Pakistan, and wanted to leave home .
At the stand, in Reggio Emilia on 10 February, there will be relatives arrested abroad in recent months, the Danish uncle Hasnain and the two cousins Ikram Ijaz and Nomanhulaq Nomanhulaq, in addition to their parents, Shabbar Abbas and Nazia Shaheen, both still fugitives in Pakistan.
"For me the dignity of others is no more important than mine (...) - the father said to his relative in the intercepted phone call -. I left my son in Italy (Saman's minor brother now entrusted to a protected community, ed. ). I killed my daughter and I came, I don't give a damn about anyone. " “I am already dead, I killed her, I killed her for my dignity and my honor . We killed her ", were other phrases in which, however, he did not mention specific names, meaning by" we "the family context.
(Unioneonline / ss)
