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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