• Events Italian police suspect that a Pakistani family killed a young woman for rejecting a forced marriage

It was a crime that shocked all of Italy in May last year.

A family decided to end the life of an 18-year-old woman for refusing to comply with her parents' decision to marry another relative of her choice residing in Pakistan whom she did not know;

follow them to her homeland and live according to the strictest Muslim precepts.

The perpetrator of this death, the victim's cousin, was arrested in Barcelona in an operation by the National Police and the Italian Carabinieri corps.

He faces a life sentence for the crimes of illegal detention, homicide and concealment of the body and is now in judicial custody, awaiting authorization to proceed with his extradition.

The events occurred in Novellara, Emilia Romagna region, when the fugitive directly participated in the crime.

According to investigations carried out by the Reggio Emilia Carabinieri Provincial Command, the defendant, the victim's cousin, together with another cousin and an uncle, in addition to having the complicity of the woman's parents, at the end of their working day dug a hole with agricultural tools in some unidentified area but located behind the shed of the farm where they worked.

His intention was to hide the body of the young woman when they killed her the next day, for which the whole family agreed.

After the crime, some of the suspects escaped and last September the woman's uncle was arrested in Paris, accused of being the material author of her death by strangulation.

This Monday, the National Police officers arrested the cousin who was hiding in the Trinidad neighborhood of Barcelona.

The death of the young woman provoked a wide debate in the Pakistani Islamic community in Italy about the intergenerational conflict as a result of the integration in the West of the second generation of Muslims who defy some traditions such as the one opposed by the victim

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