An apparent oversight triggered a blunder in a barcelona cemetery last year. The Sindicatura de Greuges reprimanded Cementiris de Barcelona – a company that belongs to the Catalan capital city council – for having exhumed a corpse to dump the remains in a common grave without first notifying the relatives of the deceased that it could be disinterred by a debt in niche payment. During the presentation of the annual balance of the supervisory office of the consistory, the síndic david bondia explained that, among the measures to try to repair the relatives of the deceased, a Forensic anthropologist to study “if the bones of the ossuary”.
The Barcelona Ombudsman revealed that the ruling originated from not hanging the mandatory sticker on the tombstone to warn the family that the grave would be emptied if the debt was not paid on time. “You must warn and put the sticker when the niche is in good condition. In this case, it was not placed & rdquor ;, Bondia said.
The family filed a complaint before the Syndicate, which agreed with him. “There was a bad procedure de Cementiris de Barcelona& rdquor ;, evaluated Bondia, who added that the events had dismayed the relatives of the deceased. “They felt blame for not having paid when they were not required and for the remains to be transferred to the common ossuary & rdquor ;, he added.
restorative encounter
Given that the resolution was not sufficient, the Ombudsman’s office arranged a meeting between the family and those responsible for Cementiris de Barcelona. “It had never been done. The company has apologized. It compensates for the moral damage and has had a restorative effect,” Bondia said. In that contact, the offer to recruit the services of the forensic anthropologist was exposed to probe whether there is an option to identify the bones of the deceased in the common grave.
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Bondia reserved giving more details about the case out of respect for the privacy of those close The síndic avoided specifying in which cemetery of the city the confusion occurred. In any case, he indicated that the process to compensate the family continues on going.
The Sindicatura de Greuges referred to the case as an example of the alternative conflict resolution policy that began in 2022. It also mediated with residents of the Eixample and Ciutat Vella so that activities could be scheduled to alleviate the discontent over the slab that has covered the road of a section of the Sant Antoni ring road, now in the process of being removed. In turn, he interceded to alleviate fears and undo mistakes about the transfer of the only shelter for homeless drug addicts and alcoholics in Barcelona to a closed hotel in the Baix Guinardolocated in front of a school.