She had managed to send a call for help from Bangladesh through a friend, getting her case as far as Italian social services and the Carabinieri. That report triggered the investigation that led to the arrest of her parents in Rimini. Now the couple, charged with domestic mistreatment and coercion into marriage, are approaching trial.
The hearing has been set for October 20 before preliminary hearing judge Raffaella Ceccarelli in Rimini. The two spouses, of Bangladeshi origin and aged 42 and 55, are defended by lawyers Valentina Vulpinari and Maurizio Ghinelli, who will request admission to a summary trial conditional on the questioning of certain witnesses.
At the centre of the case is the couple’s daughter, who arrived in Italy at the age of seven. According to the prosecution’s reconstruction, in December 2024 her parents allegedly persuaded her to travel to Bangladesh. Once in her country of origin, the young woman, then 21, was allegedly forced to marry a man ten years her senior.
After the wedding, the situation is said to have deteriorated further. The young woman was allegedly held for about ten days inside an apartment, deprived of her mobile phone and passport, and given sleeping pills and tranquillisers.
Her call for help, which reached Italy, set in motion the investigation carried out by the Rimini Carabinieri Investigative Unit, coordinated by deputy prosecutor Davide Ercolani. The probe was named “Saman 2,” a reference to the case of young Pakistani woman Saman Abbas, killed in 2021.
Ahead of the hearing, the issue of compensation for moral damages has also come into play. The defence has already filed the relevant documentation, and the young woman, through her lawyer Monica Miserocchi, has accepted the special power of attorney through which her parents gave her an apartment in Bangladesh.
After standing up against her family’s impositions and the way of life demanded of her, the young woman has been taken in by a community shelter.
