Overview

• The investigating judge in Rimini issued a precautionary order executed by Carabinieri, placing the Bangladeshi couple under domiciliary custody.
• Prosecutors charge the 55-year-old father and 42-year-old mother with domestic mistreatment and forcing or inducing marriage under Italy’s Red Code provisions.
• Investigators report the daughter was taken to Dhaka on the pretext of visiting a sick grandmother and married on 17 December 2024 to a man about ten years older.
• The young woman told authorities she was beaten, confined and given sedatives and fertility drugs, then contacted Italian anti-violence services and was placed in a protected location after arriving at Bologna airport in April.
• The inquiry, coordinated by prosecutor Davide Ercolani and authorized by Justice Minister Carlo Nordio to address offenses committed abroad, is ongoing while the parents remain under house arrest.