• Possible coercion They investigate the communications of the murdered sisters in Pakistan with their relatives

  • Events The mother witnessed the murder of the Terrassa sisters in Pakistan at the hands of her other brother

The mother and a younger brother of the two young Pakistani women living in Terrassa (Barcelona) who were murdered in their native country at the hands of their relatives, allegedly, arrived at

Barcelona's El Prat airport

this Sunday .

Both have arrived at the T1 terminal of the Barcelona airport at 8:30 in the morning on a flight from Pakistan with a stopover in Abu Dhabi.

The mother of the victims gave a statement before the Mossos d'Esquadra last Thursday morning electronically, since the woman was in the country where the crimes occurred, and in her statement she would have pointed in the same direction as the Pakistani authorities, that the daughters traveled to the Asian country deceived by their relatives, with the aim of pressuring them and forcing them to start the

paperwork so that their husbands could travel to Spain.

Regarding the causes of the femicide, the investigations indicate that

it is an honor killing

, since the two young women

wanted to divorce their cousins ​​after forced marriages.

To date,

the father, brothers and an uncle of the two murdered

at the hands of their relatives in Pakistan, as well as Ulfad Raja, the owner of the store where the father of the victims worked, have testified.

On May 20 in the town of Nothia, in the eastern province of Punjab,

Aneesa Abbas, 20

, and her sister

Arooj Abbas, 24

, would have been murdered by their relatives after requesting a divorce from their husbands and refusing to take them back to the city of Terrassa (Barcelona), where they lived.

The murder

occurred in the house of Aneesa's in-laws

, where her cousin Atiq ur Rehman lived, with whom she was married against her will in 2020. In the next house, separated only by a wall, the in-laws of Aneesa lived.

Arooj, who had been married in 2019 to Hassan, a son of a paternal aunt.

The two young women had arrived from Spain a day earlier, and on Sunday, May 22,

the Police arrested six suspects

, the sisters' husbands, Aneesa's father-in-law and also Muhammed Hanif's uncle, his son, Qasid, and two brothers of the girls, Asfandyar and Shehryar.

A court in Pakistan on Saturday authorized the Police to keep the six relatives arrested for the murder of the two sisters in custody for five days.

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