A little over a month after Saman's disappearance, his father confessed to the crime during a phone call to a relative in Italy.
"I killed my daughter," Shabbar Abbas said on June 8, 2021, when he had fled to Pakistan.
The conversation is in the proceedings of the trial that will begin in February against the family of the 18-year-old who disappeared from the night of April 30, 2021 from Novellara and that the investigators, Procura and Carabinieri of Reggio Emilia, are sure she was murdered, because she refused to marry a cousin at home and wanted to leave home.
On February 10, 2023, Saman's three family members arrested abroad, France and Spain, in recent months will go to trial in Reggio Emilia: his uncle Danish Hasnain and his two cousins Ikram Ijaz and Nomanhulaq Nomanhulaq, as well as his parents, Shabbar Abbas and Nazia Shaheen , both still fugitives in Pakistan.
"For me the dignity of others is no more important than mine (...) - Shabbar said to his relative in the intercepted phone call - I left my son in Italy (Saman's minor brother now entrusted to a protected community, ed). I killed my daughter and I came, I don't give a damn about anyone. "
The same family member, heard by the carabinieri on 25 June of that year, reported that Saman's father had called him to tell him not to talk about him.
"I am already ruined - the words of Abbas in the story of the relative - you have talked about me around, I will not leave your family alone".
And again: "I am already dead, I killed her, I killed her for my dignity and for my honor. We killed her", without naming specific names, but meaning by 'we',