he disappearance of eighteen-year-old Pakistani Saman Abbas is a major issue in Italian news. Shaman lived with her family in northern Italy.
He arrived in Italy in 2015, managing to fully integrate into the new school, and social reality with which he came in contact.
According to the Italian press, however, her family never accepted that Shaman dressed like all Italian peers, and did not want to marry her cousin in a “forced marriage”. For this reason, and to avoid further psychological pressure, the Italian authorities had decided to help Shaman and move her to a sheltered place.
The girl has been missing for four weeks and her parents, who lived in the greater Bologna area, have returned to their homeland. Italian justice sent an apology to her father and asked for the cooperation of Pakistani judiciary. Today, it was announced that an cousin of the eighteen-year-old was arrested , who was trying to go to Spain by road, from France.
He is accused of murder and concealing a corpse. Because the prosecutors of Reggio Emilia, believe that her parents, an uncle and two cousins of Shaman, killed her to punish her, because she refused to obey their orders and chose to live as a free and independent person.
The father of Shaman Abbas
“It is not true, Shaman is in Belgium and she is fine,” replies her father from his homeland. Judicial sources in Italy say that in the next few hours a lot of light will be shed on this whole tragic story.
