Italy: Pakistani girl 'leaps from balcony after refusing arranged marriage'

Adnkronos International
July 2, 2008

http://www.islamist-watch.org/669/italy-pakistani-girl-leaps-from-balcony-after

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A 15-year-old Pakistani girl was hospitalised after reportedly jumping from a balcony in the northern Italian town of Alessandria.

She had refused an arranged marriage with a 16-year-old Pakistani.

"My parents had already been in touch with his and told me I would be marrying him. I have nothing against him but I do not love him," Turin-based La Stampa daily quoted the girl as telling police from her hospital bed on Wednesday.

La Stampa called the girl 'Piccola' and said medics had operated on fractures to her legs sustained after falling from the family's balcony onto a roof below.

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