"This boy is certain that for having spoken he will suffer the same fate as his sister."
This was stated in the courtroom by the lawyer Valeria Miari, who assists the brother of Saman Abbas as a civil party.
The young man, a minor, is a key witness in the trial of the five family members of the 18-year-old accused of murder.
The defense of the defendants have asked to hear him again in the trial, while his lawyer opposes it also referring to "strong pressure that he has suffered from people close to the family nucleus" and "the trauma suffered".
"He asked to see the body, he's convinced it's his sister," he said again.
The "strong stress" suffered by the affair and "the threats suffered, the subject of another criminal proceeding, which arrived at every public outing" are two elements on which the lawyer Claudio Falleti, defender of Saman Abbas' boyfriend, insisted, to oppose to a new testimony of his client, the boy was in fact already heard in the probation before the start of the trial.
But the defendants of the defendants Danish Hasnain, Ikram Ijaz and Nomanhulaq Nomanhulaq, Saman's uncle and cousins, have included it in their lists of witnesses on which the Court of Assizes must express itself.
But "since there are no further new circumstances", Falleti said in the courtroom, it is not necessary to call him to testify.
The lawyer Liborio Cataliotti, defender of Danish Hasnain, Saman's uncle accused together with four other relatives of the murder of his niece, has announced to the Court of Assizes that he will ask for his client to be able to benefit from the sentence discount provided for by the abbreviated judgment if, at the outcome of the trial and of the sentence, the charge will be changed for him and if the contested offense should no longer be an impediment to the granting of the alternative procedure.
Hasnain in November allowed the discovery of the 18-year-old's body, buried in a farmhouse in Novellara not far from the family home.
And he provided a reconstruction of the facts according to which he only accompanied his cousins Ikram Ijaz and Nomanhulaq Nomanhulaq, co-defendants, to bury her body.
Instead, the prosecution considers the
material executor.
Currently he, like the other defendants, is accused of murder aggravated by premeditation, abject reasons and kinship, as well as concealment of a corpse and kidnapping.
Cataliotti, speaking with journalists on the sidelines of the hearing in Reggio Emilia, explained that in his opinion the aggravating circumstances can be questioned.
On the abject reasons, he said that "the doubt is whether a cultural norm, of a religious matrix, can be interpreted as an aggravating circumstance with respect to murder. That is, honor killing, judged with an attenuated responsibility in the country of origin of the three, admitted and not granted that this was the motive for the crime, can this culture represent an aggravating circumstance when this culture is imported into Italy?".
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