One of the biggest crime stories of 2021 in Italy has been the disappearance of Saman Abbas, an 18-year-old Pakistani girl, who is believed to have been murdered by her family for having refused an arranged marriage in Pakistan. Now, investigators have recovered what may be a fragment of her skull (analysis pending). Based on information gathered over the course of the investigation, police have concentrated their searches in the river areas of the Po Valley of Northern Italy.
The below article from La Stampa is translated by Fousesquawk.
Saman case: Bone fragment of human skull recovered in Lido Po. RIS (Scientific Investigation Dept.) trying to isolate DNA.
It could belong to the 18-year-old Pakistani girl of whom there has been no news since last May and who is believed to have been killed at Novellara, in the Bassa Reggiana (region) for having refused an Islamic marriage.
29 December 2021. Updated 29 December 2021. Reading time: 1 minute.
The prosecutor's office of Reggio Emilia has assigned the Scientific Investigations Department of Parma to do the analysis of a bone fragment, presumably of a human skull, which could belong to Saman Abbas, the 18-year-old Pakistani girl, of whom there has been no news since last May and is believed to have been killed at Novellara, in Bassa Reggiana for having refused an Islamic marriage arranged with a cousin in her homeland. Reporting the news is the local edition of Resto del Carlino.
The bone fragment was discovered in the area of Lido Po di Boretto by the Carabinieri on November 3. Deputy Prosecutor Laura Galli, the assigned prosecutor of the investigation, has ordered the specialized examination to extract the biological profile of the DNA to determine if it could be comparable to that of the young girl.
The searches were concentrated in the river areas of the Po after the younger brother of Saman had told the investigating judge-during a preliminary hearing behind closed doors- that he had heard a cousin during a family meeting who talked about "putting her in small pieces" and "throwing her away" at "Guastalla, where there is a river," the daily reports."
The Scientific Investigation Department of (the Carabinieri) will also analyze some clothes from Danish Hasnain, the uncle of Saman, believed to be the material perpetrator of the crime and who is now, after being arrested last 22 September in France, in jail in Paris awaiting extradition. The clothes were seized last November 6 at Novellara, in the cottage where the entire Abbas family worked as laborers and custodians of a farm.
There are 5 people accused of premeditated murder, kidnapping, and concealment of a cadaver: Besides the uncle, the cousin, Ikram Ijaz, in jail in Italy. Fugitives, meanwhile, are the other cousin, Nomanhulaq Nomanhulaq, and the parents, Shabbar and Nazia Shaheen, who fled to Pakistan on a flight from Malpensa (Milan airport) last May 1st, and of whom there is no further news.
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