An 18-year-old Pakistani girl who has
been missing from a town near Reggio Emilia since the end of
April after refusing an arranged marriage in Pakistan had a
violent argument with her family the night before she
disappeared, according to an arrest warrant for the five suspect
relatives published Monday.
Saman Abbas allegedly shouted "give me my documents".
Her father reportedly asked her "do you want to marry someone
else" to which she replied "no, I want to go away".
Prosecutors said Monday that the five suspects were under
investigation for premeditated murder and that Saman was not in
Belgium as her father had said.
A young member of the family reportedly told police "I think he
(the uncle) strangled her, also because when he came home he
didn't have anything in his hands".
Saman's uncle referred to a "job well done" to a friend in an
Internet chat room, Italian police said at the weekend, saying
he was probably referring to her murder and the disposal of her
body.
Danish Hasnain, 33, reportedly wrote "we did the job well",
according to the Gazzetta di Reggio Emilia newspaper.
Abbas also reportedly overheard her family saying that murder
was "the only solution" for women who did not obey the Pakistani
Muslim way of life, and she suspected "they are talking about
me", the paper said.
Abbas told her boyfriend about this family conversation, police
said.
Saman's parents, her uncle Danish and two cousins have been
placed under investigation for homicide and disposing of a body.
They are all on the run except for a cousin, Ikram Ijaz,
arrested last week in the French city of Nimes.
The parents flew to Pakistan at the beginning of May, and the
uncle and the other cousin are believed to be somewhere in
Europe.
The Union of Italy's Islamic Communities (UCOII) on Wednesday
issued a fatwah (ban) on arranged marriages after Saman's case.
UCOII issued the ban, along with one on infibulation, together
with the Islamic Association of Imams and Religious Guides. The
fatwah is against "conduct that cannot find any religious
justification and are therefore absolutely to be condemned, and
still more to be prevented".
UCOII said the case of Saman Abbas "has shocked and concerned us
from the start".
Abbas went missing from her home in Novellara at the end of
April.
Police said they had CCTV footage of three people carrying two
spades, a bucket with a blue bag, a crowbar and another tool
heading for the fields behind the Abbas family house.
The suspected body-disposal party left the house at 19:15 on
April 29 and came back at 21:50 on the same evening.
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