The chilling case of Saman Abbas, the Pakistani teenager murdered by her family in Italy: “We cut her into pieces and threw her in the trash”

The brother of Saman Abbas, the Pakistani woman, 18, murdered in Italy by her family after refusing to accept an arranged marriage, gave details about how they planned the crime in a statement before the judge in charge of the case.

On the afternoon of April 30, hours before the 18-year-old Pakistani was murdered, a frightening conversation took place which the victim’s brother re-enacted for the judge. That day, at the home of his parents, Shabbar Abbas and Nazia Shaeen, what the court describes in the file was held as the meeting “on how to remove the body, how to dismember it”.

“I do it in small pieces and, if you want, I also take it to Guastalla (Italian municipality), and we throw it there because it doesn’t go well like that. She does too many things. He puts on pants. Nothing to do with Muslim women “Saman’s brother heard that afternoon from his uncle.

The 16-year-old confirmed that the day before the murder, the family gathered to plan the crime at the Abbas’ home, a house in the municipality of Novellara, in the region of Emilia Romagna, very close to Guastalla.

According to the judge, the motive for the murder was refusal of the young woman not to accept the arranged marriage with a Pakistani cousin. In addition, she had a romantic relationship with a young man of her age who lived in Italy. “There is a terrible relationship between the religious precepts and the precepts of the local tradition, which oblige the members of the clan to a brutal, blind and absolutely uncritical observance of the femicide”, wrote the judge, according to the Spanish media ABC.

The survey refers to a UN report on the honor killings in Punjab, the state shared by India and Pakistan from which the Abbas family originates. According to the text, women who reject agreed marriages are “thrown into rivers or buried in special hidden cemeteries”.

The killer was Saman’s uncle, the Danish Hasnain, a 33-year-old fundamentalist Islamist. The young woman’s brother revealed it to Justice: “He killed her by strangling her; He asked me not to tell the police and threatened to kill me if I said anything. I thought about killing him in his sleep, considering what he had done. But later I thought I would have ended up in prison and that it was better for the police to intervene “the teenager declared.

Saman, who lived in the town of Novellara, rebelled last year against his family’s proposal to marry a cousin in his homeland.

Be even less, contacted social services and in November was transferred to a reception center. He reported his parents to the police, but on April 11 he returned with them.

His remains are still missing. The police have been looking for her from the May 5, when they went to his house and found no one.

Then they found out that her parents had gone to Pakistan without her, and found footage from a security camera that portended the worst: April 29, Five people were seen walking away from the house with shovels, a crowbar and a bucket. They returned about two and a half hours later.

The riflemen identified the five people as family members suspected of murder. They are believed to have fled to Pakistan.

(With information from AFP)

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