The father of Saman Abbas, sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his 18-year-old daughter killed in Novellara 3 years ago, changes his version. During the episode of “Quarto Grado”, broadcast this evening, Friday 31 May, on Retequattro, an absolutely exclusive video was broadcast of the deposition, which took place in Modena prison on 19 April, made by the father of the young Shabbar, in the presence of the prosecutor and his lawyers.
Shabbar contests the first instance sentence, in which he and his wife Nazia Shaheen (just arrested by the Pakistani authorities and awaiting extradition) were sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of their daughter Saman. The man tells another, unpublished, version of the events that took place in Novellara, in the province of Reggio Emilia, dating back to 1 May 2021.
The sentence, which also sentenced Saman’s uncle, Danish, to 14 years in prison, acquitted the girl’s cousins, Ikram Ijaz and Nomanulhaq: and it is precisely against the latter that Shabbar attacks, accusing them of having committed the crime together with Danish. Abbas told the magistrates that he had only ordered a punitive expedition against his daughter’s boyfriend, Saqib. And he claims to have been threatened if he told the truth.
”It is true that Saman is dead and that she was killed. But it is also true that she was not killed by just one person: that evening there was more than one – says Shabbar Abbas – How did Danish manage to make that hole alone? Did you use two shovels? There was someone else: two or three people”.
Shabbar says he asked for a punitive expedition against Saqib. ”I had said not to hit him hard, so as not to make the ambulance arrive, but only to hit him to scare him – he says – When I called Danish he told me that all three of them would go: him, together with his cousins of Saman, Ijaz and Nomanulhaq”.
Then, Danish says that he would have gone with his cousins to beat Saqib but that he went out and heard nothing, ”not even a voice”. ”I immediately understood it was all three,” he adds. ”So far I think I have saved my son – he explains – Ikram’s father, his uncle, are all dangerous people. They are very dangerous people. They told me: ‘There is your son, you have one left, don’t accuse our son…”’.
Then he adds in the conversation that took place when his wife was still at large: ”Nazia did not kill Saman. A mother always cries for her daughter. She isn’t coming to Italy now, but a word from me would be enough and she would arrive here”. ”I only want justice for my daughter – she concludes – I’ll stay in prison, there’s no problem, I have nothing left outside anyway. When I hear on television that my wife and I killed our daughter, it hurts me a lot”.
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