“I make it into small pieces and if you want to take it to Guastalla too, let’s throw it there“. This would be the shocking content of some statements made by the brother of Saman Abbas, the 18-year-old Pakistani of whom there has been no news since last April, during the probative incident in the Prosecutor’s Office in Reggio Emilia. The boy revealed to the investigators that, the day before the disappearance, a “family reunion“to plan the details of the crime. Meanwhile, according to the Bologna Review Court, the motive for the murder would underlie the refusal of the pre-defined wedding that “sinks into a fearful synergy – reads the ordinance – between the religious precepts and the dictates of local tradition“.
“I tear it into small pieces and throw it there”
The mysterious disappearance of Saman Abbas thickens with macabre details for which a file has been opened in the Prosecutor’s Office in Reggio Emilia with the hypothesis of a crime for premeditated murder and corpse concealment. The premeditation, already confirmed by the videos that would immortalize some members of the Abbas clan wandering with suspicion in the Novellara countryside on the day of his disappearance, would find further confirmation in some statements made to prosecutors by the 18-year-old’s younger brother.
According to Repubblica.it, the boy reported a “family reunion“held on the evening of April 30 when the details of the criminal plan would be defined. The meeting was attended by the young woman’s uncle, Danish Hasnain, cousins Ikram Ijaz and Nomanhulaq Nomanhulaq. One of the participants proposed to take over the burial. of the corpse. “He said: ‘I make small pieces and if you want to take me to Guastalla too, – declares Saman’s brother – let’s throw it there, because that’s not good“.
“The groom is too big for me”
According to the reconstruction of the investigators, Saman Abbas was the victim of a family conspiracy after refusing the arranged marriage with his cousin in Pakistan. The motive of the murder “sinks into a fearful synergy – reads the text of the ordinance –between the religious precepts and the dictates of local tradition (which bind the members of the clan to a crude, blind and absolutely uncritical observance of the directive of femicide)“.
The 18-year-old, guest in a protected structure after the denunciation of induction to marriage, he had entrusted his concerns to the carabinieri. “Talking to my mother I said to her: ‘Come on mom, you’re a mom, he’s too big for me, – he had told the girl to the military on February 3 – he also doesn’t want to marry me. ‘ She replied that it is not my decision“.
“From the first moment I knew their intention was to marry my cousin, I said I didn’t want to.“, explained Saman to the carabinieri. Then, the story of the violence suffered by father Shabbar: “My father’s reactions were physically violent. He beat me. Once, 5 months ago, he threw a knife in my direction and it hit not me, but my brother who was 15, wounding him in the hand. He beat me because I wanted to go to school, but he didn’t want to“.
Cousin Ikram remains in prison
Among the 5 suspects with the hypothesis of a crime of premeditated murder and concealment of a corpse, in addition to Saman’s parents (still fugitives), there are also his uncle Danish Hasnain, believed to be the material perpetrator of the crime, the two cousins Nomanhulaq Nomanhulaq and Ikram Ijaz. The latter, in prison since last May, allegedly participated in the preparatory phase of the criminal plan.
According to investigators, Ijaz’s involvement would be supported by “elements of very strong circumstantial value“, that is to say, “la shocks leak abroad“of May 6. The Pakistani was intercepted in France, probably fleeing with his cousin Nomanhulaq Nomanhulaq, while trying to reach his uncle Danish Hasnain.
For the Bologna Review Court, the sudden departure is “devoid of any explanation if not strictly motivated by co-responsibility in thehomocide and the consequent need to avoid prosecution of this crime“. But that is not all.
The explanation given by Ikram to the video in which he would be immortalized with the crowbar and the shovel on the night of the murder was denied by the employer and another witness. Saman’s cousin, questioned after the capture, he had said that the equipment would be needed for cleaning a drain.
Therefore, the Bolognese judges confirmed the order of the investigating judge by rejecting the request for release formulated by the Pakistani’s lawyer. “Not the slightest sense of emotion emerged for the terrible fate of the poor young woman who is also a relative of hers, the slightest reproach for those who have made such a gesture, – the text of the ordinance reported by Repubblica.it still reads – nor the slightest doubt about the ethical correctness of those dictates of tradition in compliance with which the murder was committed“Ikram Ijaz”he coldly and faithfully placed himself at the service of a ferocious killer moved by the cultural and religious tradition that he himself shares“.