“Saman's body was whole, but saponified. Fortunately, however, the fabrics allow for investigations ».

This was stated by the lawyer Barbara Iannuccelli who represents the Penelope association as a civil party in the trial for the murder of the 18-year-old Pakistani woman, who disappeared and was killed in the night between 30 April and 1 May 2021 in Novellara, in the Bassa Reggiana.

The autopsy on the remains that presumably belong to Saman Abbas – found last November 18 in a ruined farmhouse 700 meters from the family home – was performed at the University of Milan , in the Labanof laboratory, directed by anatomopathologist Cristina Cattaneo ( also known for having worked on the cases of Yara Gambirasio and Stefano Cucchi) appointed by the court of Reggio Emilia to carry out the expert report together with the forensic archaeologist Dominic Salsarola. The operations, which went on for about seven hours, took place in the presence of the defendants' lawyers, the civil parties, and the consultants appointed by them.

"From the external analysis of the body - explains the lawyer - detachments and abrasions emerged which can be dictated by the cork effect, having been underground for a year and a half ". No obvious cuts to his throat were found: «It would be misleading to define him as such - says Iannuccelli - and all the more to bring him back due to Saman's death. There is not even certainty that what was seen could be a cut. It could be a postmortem tissue detachment. In this regard , histological tests are necessary which will be carried out in the next few days to understand if they were lesions sprayed with blood and therefore dating back to when Saman was still alive. To date, I repeat, no one is able to say.

The girl " was wearing her jeans frayed at the knee to be fashionable and the sweatshirt. The clothes seem to be precisely those attributable to the video that filmed her in front of the house in her last hours before her disappearance», he continues: «She was still wearing an anklet and a bracelet of those colored lucky charms, but also a pair of earrings. And a thick mane of hair.'