"We died on the spot."
These are words spoken by Nazia Shaheen, mother of Saman Abbas, in a conversation with her other son, intercepted at the end of August 2021. It is the first time since the crime that the words of the woman, who on this occasion speaks of herself and her husband, have come out. Shabbar Abbas.
The phone call is in the big folder of the trial for the murder of the eighteen-year-old Pakistani woman that will begin in February 2023 in Reggio Emilia.
Process that, after investigations by the carabinieri and prosecutor Laura Galli, sees five family members of the girl accused, her parents fugitives in Pakistan, two cousins and an uncle arrested between France and Spain.
ANSA agency
Saman: the father intercepted, I killed my daughter - Emilia-Romagna
The phone call to a relative in June 2021. The 'spark' for the crime a shot published by the girl on social media that portrayed her kissing her boyfriend on the street in Bologna (ANSA)