Saman Abbas, an 18-year-old
Italian-Pakistani woman killed by her family on the night
between 30 April and 1 May 2021 at Novellara near Reggio Emilia,
may have been murdered by her mother, judges said in their
explanation issued Tuesday of the life sentences handed down to
her parents earlier this year.
"The defendants Abbas Shabbar and Shaheen Nazia literally
accompanied their daughter to her death and it is not excluded
that the mother was the material executor", said the 600-page
explanation of the sentencing, which also saw her uncle get 16
years.
The mother is a fugitive from justice somewhere in Pakistan
while the other family members are in jail in Italy.
The judges also said they had ruled out the motivation of the
murder being Saman's alleged refusal of an arranged marriage
with an older man in Pakistan, saying the killing had been "spur
of the moment" and in apparent anger at the young woman wanting
to leave home and go to live with her boyfriend in a a
Western-style arrangement.
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