“He said: ‘I make small pieces and if you want to take me to Guastalla too, let’s throw them there, because that’s not good’”. The first details emerge of what may have happened in the last hours before the disappearance of Samal Abbas, the 18-year-old of Pakistani origins who lived in Novellare, vanished into thin air after the refusal of an arranged marriage. The afternoon of April 30 in the Abbas house in Novellara, in the province of Reggio Emilia, there would be a meeting in which he would participate Danish Hasnain, uncle of Saman, and another relative in which it would be talked about the ways in which to make the girl’s body disappear, dismembering it. The detail emerges fromevidentiary incident of Saman’s younger brother, who disappeared that very evening, and mentioned in the ordinance of Court of Review of Bologna who confirmed the prison for the cousin, Ikram Ijaz, the only one arrested.
To report the sentence pronounced by one of the participants in the meeting was Saman’s brother. The ordinance states that the motive sinks into a “fearful synergy between religious precepts and the dictates of local tradition (who come to bind the members of the clan to a crude, blind and absolutely uncritical observance of the directive of femicide as well) “. The girl’s body was searched for a long time by all means but still has not been found.
Ijaz, participated in the preparatory phase of the murder, digging, on April 29, the hole where they would have buried Saman. Then on the night between 30 and May 1 he arrived at the Abbas’ house following the material author of the murder, Danish Hasnain, with the other cousin Nomanhulaq Nomanhulaq who, like him, had participated in the preparatory phase. For this reason, according to the review court which rejected his appeal, “the most probable and qualified hypothesis is that” the two cousins ”also participated in the material execution of the murder”, giving a hand to Danish Hasnain.
The other element that is believed to be “of very strong circumstantial value” is “the sudden leak abroad “, of 6 May. Ikram was in fact arrested in France, while the other cousin, the uncle and the two parents, all accused of premeditated murder and kidnapping, are still fugitives. That he fled with Nomanhulaq and that they reached Hasnain “further confirms a situation of complicity between the three”. There leak it is in fact “devoid of any explanation” not strictly motivated “From co-responsibility in the murder and the consequent need to avoid the prosecution of this crime”.
According to the judges, in fact, it is not clear why Ikram is innocent suddenly gave up to a regularly paid work without notifying the employer. Saman’s minor brother then reported that on the evening of the 30th, after his uncle, the Abbas also arrived in the house of cousins, “Joining the collective weeping and despair over the fate of Saman”. According to the investigators, when Saman was attacked, shortly after midnight by her uncle Danish, her cousins were also present because in a chat the same uncle wrote to an acquaintance: “We did a good job”, in the plural.
Then, according to the judges, there would be no any kind of repentance on the part of the cousin nor “the slightest sense of emotion for the terrible fate of the poor young man who is also a relative of his” on the contrary, he would have made his own “the reasons for the crime of the co-suspect in the most dangerous and fearful hypothesis”, that is the uncle of Saman, Danish Hasnain. So for the Ikram Ijaz Review “he set himself coldly and faithfully in the service of a ferocious killer moved by the cultural and religious tradition that he himself shares “.