Italy on Thursday said it had asked Pakistan to extradite the parents of a teenage girl who was murdered after her family refused an arranged marriage.
The announcement came after news on Wednesday that 18-year-old Saman Abbas’s uncle had been arrested in Paris for his murder along with his parents and two of his cousins.
The case has caused an uproar in Italy and has become front-page news since the start of the police investigating The body of the girl who went missing in May has not been found yet.
“Justice Minister Marta Cartabia … has signed and deported two extradition requests for the parents of Saman Abbas to Pakistan, which are investigating the murder of their daughter,” the Justice Ministry said on Thursday.
Prosecutors on Wednesday announced the arrest of the teenager’s uncle on a European warrant on the outskirts of Paris.
Saman Abbas, who lives in the northern Italian city of Novellara, had last year denied her family’s plan to marry a cousin in her home country of Pakistan.
While still a minor, she turned to social services and was shifted to a shelter home in November. She also informed the police to her parents, but returned to them on April 11.
Police started searching for him on May 5, when officers went to his house and found no one.
The authorities then learned that the girl’s parents had moved to Pakistan without her, and found pictures from a nearby security camera, which scared them the most.
Late on April 29, five people were seen leaving the house with a shovel, lohri and bucket and returning after about two and a half hours.
A cousin of the case is currently in prison in Italy.
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