"If you don't get married, you'll end up like Saman Abbas." Words that a 52-year-old Pakistani would have said to his daughter in her early twenties, residing in Novellara, the same town in Reggio Emilia where Saman's family lived.
For the man and his 37-year-old wife, the girl's stepmother, the carabinieri carried out a ban on communicating and approaching the places frequented by the victim, who in 2021 was forced to marry a cousin at a distance. She had objected to marrying him physically. An electronic bracelet is available for everyone.
Both spouses are liable for ill-treatment, the man also for coercion or inducement to marriage.
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