(ANSA) A male cousin of an 18-year-old Pakistani woman who went missing from a town near Reggio Emilia after refusing an arranged marriage in Pakistan was arrested in France at the weekend.
The man, who was reportedly gearing to flee to Spain and hide with relatives there, is one of five people probed for Saman Abbas’s disappearance, including her parents, another cousin and her uncle.
Procedures to extradite Ikram Ijaz are set to be initiated although Reggio prosecutors have not ruled out going to Nimes to question him before that.
The woman’s father said she is well and in Belgium.
Abbas went missing from her home in Novellara at the end of April.
