A Pakistani woman has died in Italy after her husband beat her with a brick for opposing the arranged marriage of her daughter, triggering a wave of outrage among Italian politicians on Monday.
The daughter, 20-year-old Nosheen Butt, was hospitalized with a cranial trauma and a broken arm after her 19-year-old brother hit her with a stick in the courtyard of their building in Novi, near the northern city of Modena. According to Modena prosecutors' initial results, the father Ahmad Khan Butt, a 53-year-old construction worker, threw his wife to the ground and beat her with a brick while the brother Umair assaulted his sister."The victim did not want her daughter to have an unhappy relationship like the one that had been forced on her," as the mother and daughter shared the same point of view.
This could be called a 'cultural' homicide because in addition to domestic aggression there is the issue of the ethnicity that may have aggravated the crime.
Livia Turco, a senior politician in the Democrats of the Left main opposition party, condemned "arranged marriages and violence against women" on the alleged reason of "ethnic traditions" that she annoyingly said as "medieval practices".
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