The father of Saman Abbas, an
18-year-old Italian-Pakistani woman believed to have been killed
by her family for refusing an arranged marriage in Pakistan, has
been caught on an intercept saying he killed his daughter.
Saman disappeared form her home at Novellara near Reggio Emilia
on the night of April 30 2021 and has not been seen since.
She was being pressured to marry her cousin in Pakistan and
wanted to leave home, Italian prosecutors say.
Her father Shabbar Abbas fled to Pakistan with his wife shortly
after Saman's disappearance and was heard saying in a phone
conversation with a relative in Italy on June 8 2021: "I killed
my daughter".
The phone tap is among the evidence that will be presented that
will begin in February in Italy against family members accused
of murdering Sama, including her uncle.
On trial on February 10 next year are three relatives caught in
France and Spain recently: uncle Danish Hasnain and two cousins
Ikram Ijaz e Nomanhulaq Nomanhulaq, as well as her parents,
Shabbar Abbas and Nazia Shaheen, still hiding somewhere in
Pakistan.
The father, Shabbar, said in the phone tap: "For me the dignity
of others is not more important than mine...I left a son in
Italy (a younger son now in a shelter who has accused his uncle
in the case). I killed my daughter and I left, I don't care
about anyone else at all".
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