Saman Abbas killed by her mother? The last lead on the Reggio Emilia case

Over 600 pages of reasons: this is the amount of work produced by the Court of Assizes of Reggio Emilia to explain the responsibility of parents and uncle Of Saman Abbasthe young Pakistani woman killed on the night between 30 April and 1 May 2021. The two closest relatives were sentenced to life imprisonment, while her uncle will have to serve 16 years in prison.

The accusatory system of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Reggio Emilia was completely distorted and the Court provided a different interpretation both in the execution phase of the murder and for the motive which therefore modifies the aggravating circumstances. The premeditation is scaled down, setting aside the digging of the hole: i parents would have decided to kill her by mutual agreement with his uncle a few minutes before the crime. “First of all, the fact that the accused Abbas Shabbar and Shaheen Nazia literally accompanied their daughter to her death.” And this is to explain how you can say that the common will of the defendants has been preliminarily ascertained commit the murder of their own daughterthe presence of both at the crime scene, and the proven contribution provided to the realization of the event.

However, it would emerge from the reasons that the Court was unable to determine with certainty who was the material executor of the crime. Yet, it would emerge that it could have been exactly there mother of the girl because “of the movements and demeanor of the twofilmed by the cameras of the farmhouse in Novellara”. The mother, “in a firm and determined way, blocks her husband with a resolute gesture, and goes onto the carriage road with Saman, for that minute which does not allow us to exclude that she was the executor material”. The husband “appears tormented, assuming attitudes that account for the drama of what is happening, but he remains observing, without doing anything”. A sign that it could have been the woman who committed the crime.