Saman, the lawyer speaks: “The Prosecutor’s Office will initiate the extradition of the mother, as soon as she is in Italy she will go to prison”
The lawyer of the Islamic Community Gianluca Bocchino: "He will be able to further clarify the dynamics of the murderer to the magistrates". The 51-year-old woman will no longer face the appeal process as a fugitive.
(SAY) Rome, 31 May. – Saman Abbas‘s mother is no longer a fugitive, the Reggio Emilia prosecutor’s office will start the extradition process from Pakistan and, as soon as the woman is in Italy, she will go to prison. The lawyer Gianluca Bocchino, who represents the Italian Islamic Community in the trial for the murder of the 18-year-old from Novellara, explains the next judicial steps.
“Now the Reggio Emilia Prosecutor’s Office will start the extradition procedure, since the person has already been declared a fugitive during the investigations and during the first instance trial. Saman’s mother she was sentenced to life imprisonment and therefore, once in Italy, she will immediately go to prison and then she will be able to defend herself in the subsequent appeal trial, this time not as a fugitive, as happened in the past, but in presence”. Thus the lawyer Gianluca Bocchinoof Tonucci&Partners, who represents the Italian Islamic Communityand the Mosque of Rome in > trial for the death of Saman Abbas, the 18-year-old Pakistani girl murdered in 2021 in Novellara for refusing an arranged marriage, comments to Dire the news of the capture of Nazia, Saman’s mother, sentenced to life imprisonment by the court of Reggio Emilia for the murder of her daughter. The woman was a fugitive in Pakistan.
“It is extremely important news for the organizations I represent – continued the lawyer – it is clear that it makes a difference knowing whether a guilty person is in prison or at liberty. At this point the mother of Saman can be heard by the magistrates or the judge when the appeal process is set to begin We will see what she has to say and whether her statements will further clarify the dynamics of the case ‘murder’.
