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Martes, 15 de octubre 2024, 21:30
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The Calp cemetery is once again the epicenter of a new scandal. A French tourist has reported on social media that his sister's niche, buried there in 1973, is occupied by another deceased person. Therefore, he went to the town hall this Tuesday to try to clarify what happened to his relative.
The family is on vacation in the villa of Penyal d'Ifac. On Sunday, the man went to the cemetery to visit his sister's grave, according to the councilor of the Eternal Rest Park, Marco Bittner. To his surprise, the name of the girl, who died half a century ago, no longer appeared on the tombstone. In the niche, which was perpetual and belonged to him for a period of 99 years, a new burial had been carried out in 2015, without the family of the little girl being aware that her remains had been exhumed.
Shocked by what he had just discovered, the French tourist posted on Facebook on Monday about what happened, in a Calp group. There he explained that he was in shock because they had "stolen" his sister's grave and asked what steps he should take to report these events.
In one of the responses, someone tagged Bittner, who began to investigate what was happening. Additionally, this Tuesday the councilor and the mayor, Ana Sala, met with the relatives, committed to trying to clarify what happened and will attempt to recover the girl's remains.
As this is not the first incident of this type in the cemetery, the Calp Town Hall has decided to create an investigation committee "in order to study possible cases of illegal exhumation of niches in the municipal cemetery, presumably carried out to bury relatives of other people in them." In this regard, Sala has insisted that, "given the precedents that exist on this issue, we are very concerned that there may be more cases and that is why we are going to create an internal investigation committee to get to the bottom of it."
In fact, the previous case affects a niche very close to the one that has now gained prominence. It also belonged to a foreign person who, like the French girl, died in 1973. This previous incident resulted in a ruling by the Second Section of the Provincial Court of Alicante, last July, in which a former councilor and a Calp Town Hall technician were sentenced to disqualification for a crime of prevarication for illegally exhuming a deceased person from a niche to bury the technician's grandmother in its place.
The events date back to late 2018. The family of that official, who was the head of Human Resources, was interested in the niche next to their grandfather's, as the grandmother was ill and they feared she would not live much longer. Unfortunately, it was occupied by a German man buried 45 years ago and the concession was for 99 years.
After pressuring employees to obtain that space, in January 2019 the two convicted individuals drafted a provision, with an order to exhume the remains from that niche. The gravediggers, unaware of the irregularities hidden behind the order, extracted the coffin and the remains of the deceased were transferred to a common niche, while the grandmother's coffin of the then head of Human Resources was placed in the previous one.
The current councilor, Marco Bittner, hopes these are the only two cases related to illegal exhumations in the Calp cemetery. As he has pointed out, they will review the niches of the burials from the 1970s, where the irregularities have occurred, to ensure that the rest are occupied by the people who were buried.
The councilor of the Eternal Rest Park has indicated that, although bodies can be exhumed, the established protocol must be followed and informed. And in the case of the French girl "it was not appropriate to empty the niche," he insisted, because it was owned by the family for a period of 99 years that has not yet concluded.
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