Saman Abbas, the uncle at the trial: “I found her dead: they wanted to kill me too”

He reiterates it: it was not he who killed Saman Abbas. Danish Hasnain, the uncle of Saman Habbas, the 18-year-old of Pakistani origin killed and buried in Novellara, recorded his version in the interrogation filed by the Prosecutor during the last hearing of the trial (he is accused together with the girl’s cousins, Ikram Ljaz and Nomanhulaq, his father Shabbar Habbas and his mother Nazia Shaheen).

The man had already spoken to investigators and was he to lead the investigators to the place where the body was buried of Saman Abbas, killed on the night between April 30 and May 1, 2021, but it is the first time he has done so assisted by his lawyer Liborio Cataliotti: this report, unlike the others, can be used in the trial.

Even if the prosecutors consider him the material executor of the crime, Danish Hasnain continues to deny any responsibility. On April 30 “at 10.30 pm I turned off the phone and slept,” she explained. «Kam and Man (the cousins) woke me up and told me that there had been a quarrel and the dead man had escaped. We took the route that I showed you when we did the inspection, I asked why and they told me not to be seen by the cameras». Once in front of the cottage, «I saw Saman lying dead with her neck weird, tight. I began to scream loudly, curse everyone, cry, I fainted. I was there because the others wanted to kill methey said that the mother was the instigator».

The man was allegedly asked to help bury the body, «but I didn’t feel like it but I only moved the earth to the side of the hole with my bare hands from the sides so that it didn’t fall back inside, then I went back to Saman and I kept crying and talking to her. Why was I there? I think they called me because they wanted to kill me for mine good relationship with saman and i agreed about his relationship with saqyb. Then I don’t know why they killed me. Come to think of it, the hole was too big for one person».

And again: «The other two were very sweaty; I couldn’t see what they were doing so I walked away. I didn’t see who put it in. I leaned against a vine, waiting for the other two to return and then we went home together. They took at least two hours. On the way back, all three of us cried. At home Man took Saman’s documents and threw them in front of the bed saying: ‘Now what do we do with them?’, then Man told me he had burned them in the stove».