Saman, the intercepted mother speaks from Pakistan: "Your father and I died there"

"We died on the spot", says Nazia Shaheen, mother of Saman Abbas

, referring to her and her husband in a conversation with her other son, intercepted at the end of August 2021. It is the first time since the crime that the woman's words have appeared in the legal events following the death of the 18-year-old Pakistani woman who disappeared from Novellara (Reggio Emilia) on April 30, 2021. 

The phone call is in the large folder of the trial that will begin in February 2023

in Reggio Emilia and which, after the investigations by the carabinieri and the prosecutor Laura Galli, sees

Ikram Ijaz and Nomanhulaq Nomanhulaq, and the Danish uncle Hasnain, the latter three arrested between France and Spain.   

The phrase by Nazia Shaheen is

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It is the boy - the minor brother of Saman, now entrusted to a protected community, ed - who calls the Pakistani user used by his parents, who fled home on May 1st, the morning after the alleged murder of his daughter which took place the night between the 30th. April and May 1st, on which new details are emerging.

Primarily the father's "confession" - "I killed her" - emerged in another interception. 

Saman's brother is one of the key witnesses for the investigators: heard in a probative incident on June 18, 2021, he accused the family of the crime, in particular he indicated his uncle Danish as the material perpetrator of the killing of his sister.

A detail on which also converges in part the story of one of the two investigated cousins, Ijaz, to a cellmate in prison.

A story in a prison context that the investigators themselves take with caution, but according to which the last moments of the girl's life would have been these: Saman held down by cousins ​​Ijaz and Nomanhulaq while her uncle Danish strangled her with a rope.

Then the help of a sixth person, not identified, to finish the young woman, put the body in a sack, load it on a bike, dismember it and throw it into the Po.   

From the phone call at the end of August between Saman's brother and his mother, there is still a glimpse of familiar silence regarding the girl's fate.

Guilty, for her relatives, only of wanting to live with a freedom that is not in keeping with traditional Pakistani dictates.  

The boy talks to his mother about two other people in the family, not investigated, who according to him would have instigated his father in organizing the murder of his sister.

He is angry at the two - an uncle and a cousin - holding them morally responsible for Saman's demise and letting in feelings of revenge.

Instead, the mother tries to calm him down by asking him to "leave them alone".   

"Those who give wrong advice, you have to do this with them," says the boy.

The mother replies: "Leave them alone, send them to the devil."

And again, the young man cites a quoted phrase of these family members "'If she was my daughter, so was I to her'. I have not forgotten anything. I will straighten these two".

At that point the mother replies: "You don't know about her?", Probably referring to Saman's behavior, "In front of you at home ... we died on the spot, that's why your father is in bed and so is the mother ( speaks of himself in the third person, ed) in bed ". 

And then in the following passages: "You are aware of everything," he says to his son, "Think of all the things, the messages that you used to listen to us early in the morning, think of those messages, think and then say if your parents are wrong ".

But here the boy replies: "Now I am repenting, because I said".   

Among other things, according to a cousin heard by the carabinieri of Reggio Emilia, an element that would have sparked the 'death sentence' of the eighteen-year-old would have been a photo of a kiss between Saman and her boyfriend, in the streets of Bologna, shared on a social from the girl.

It was her underage brother who saw her and showed her to her family, unleashing their anger.