Under a persistent rain, the coffin of Saman Abbas, escorted by the carabinieri, arrived at the Novellara cemetery where a private funeral ceremony was celebrated in the afternoon, with an Islamic rite.
The young Pakistani girl died at the age of 18, on the night between 30 April and 1 May 2021 and remained buried for over a year and a half in a farmhouse near the house where she lived.
According to the prosecution hypothesis, she was killed because she wanted to rebel against her family's traditions and she did not accept a forced marriage.
On 19 December 2023, the Reggio Assize Court sentenced the father Shabbar Abbas, extradited from Pakistan, to life imprisonment, and the mother Nazia Shaheen, still at large, to 14 years and her uncle, Danish Hasnain, to life imprisonment, while it acquitted and freed her cousins Ikram Ijaz and Nomanhulaq Nomanhulaq.
The burial ceremony takes place in a confidential manner also for the protection of the girl's younger brother, a witness against his relatives.
The rite is curated by Yassine Lafram (president of the Ucoii, the union of Islamic communities in Italy).
Present were about ten people dear to the brother, a delegation from the local Islamic community, the prefect MariaRita Cocciufa representing the State and the mayor of Novellara Elena Carletti.
The body was buried not far from the tomb of Nomadi singer Augusto Daolio, in a part of the cemetery where other dead young people and children were found.
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