He said he did not kill his niece Saman Abbas, but
admitted to having accompanied the girl's two cousins, Nomanhulaq Nomanhulaq and Ikram Ijaz, to bury her body
.
Uncle Danish Hasnain, who
on 18 November 2022 indicated where to dig to find the body of the young
relative who has disappeared since 30 April 2021, two days earlier had asked to speak to the prison police of the Reggio Emilia prison: "I want to tell you that I I killed Saman and for this I don't want to have a sentence for the one who killed Saman".
Danish, who according to the investigations by the Carabinieri and by the Reggio Emilia Public Prosecutor's Office
is actually considered the material executor of the crime
, thus reconstructs his version of the evening of April 30, saying that he was first called by Shabbar, Saman's father, and for not answering.
Then that he was joined while he was sleeping by his cousins and that he followed them towards the Abbas' house.
He would have seen the girl's corpse on the ground, among the greenhouses, and added that her cousins would have blamed Saman's mother, Nazia Shaheen, even if according to him she hadn't really gone that way.
Then the three would have taken the body to the ruined farmhouse in Strada Reatino, where there was a shovel ready for digging.
On November 18, together with the investigators, he then reconstructed the route taken that night.
Meanwhile
, a brief hearing was held in Islamabad for Shabbar Abbas, accused of the murder of his daughter Sanam
.
Present in the courtroom Shabbar Abbas, the defence, the public prosecutor and an official of the Italian embassy.
The Pakistani lawyer and the prosecutor argued over the correctness of the documents provided by the Italian government.
The judge adjourned the proceedings to February 7
.
Shabbar Abbas' bail application will be considered at the next hearing.
And during the day
, the Treviso City Council decided to posthumously confer honorary citizenship on Saman
Abbas.
The murder of the girl - says the Municipality in a note - shocked and outraged public opinion, highlighting how the scourges of the annulment of women's rights, violence and feminicide are still present and rooted.