The officers took a statement from the father of the young women and several relatives who live in Terrassa. Meanwhile, a brother and uncle of the two sisters confessed to the sexist crime.
Euskaraz irakurri: Pakistanis eraildako bi ahizpak behartuta joan ote ziren ikertzen ari dira Mossoak
The Mossos d’Esquadra have spent the past few hours questioning the… father and several relatives residents in Terrassa (Barcelona) of the two sisters who were tortured and killed in Pakistan after they tried to end the forced marriage with their cousins, to find out if they had left Catalonia for that country voluntary or forced
The father of Aneesa and Arooj Abbas (20 and 24 years old), has stated that he has not spoken to his daughters since the day they left the house. The Catalan police are in contact with the Public Prosecution Service in case criminal evidence emerges from its efforts in Catalonia.
Meanwhile, two male relatives –the maternal uncleMohammed Hanif, and the brother of these, Shehryar Abbas- confessed in Pakistan that they killed the women Four other men, all relatives, have been detained.
“Muhammad Hanif and Shehryar have confessed that they were killed for honor because the young women wanted to marry other men in Spain,” said one of the police officers who led the investigation, Akhtar Hussain.
Originally from the village of Nathia near the city of Gujrat in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province, the young women had been forced to marry their cousins more than a year ago, and now their in-laws were trying to convince them to let them go. to help emigrate to the state. Pakistani police believe the women were the victims of “intent”. The two sisters not only refused to return to Pakistan with their husbands, but also asked for the marriage to be annulled.
The Pakistani police chief of the Gujrat district, Ata Ur Rahman, has explained that they have obtained evidence from the crime scene and that “they will receive the maximum penalty under Pakistani law, which is the death penalty.”
The Terrassa City Council has stated: two days of official mourning (yesterday and me) for the sexist murder of the two sisters.
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Source: EITB
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