Calpe Town Council will create an investigation commission to study possible cases of illegal exhumation of niches in the municipal cemetery, probably carried out to bury other people's relatives in them. The council has taken this decision after detecting a new case of illegal exhumation following a complaint from the relatives of a French girl buried in Calpe, who on a recent visit to the Calpe cemetery discovered that the niche was occupied by another person.
The girl was buried in Calpe in 1973, and the ownership of the niche was in perpetuity, i.e. for 99 years. The new burial in that niche took place in 2015.
The mayoress of Calpe, Ana Sala, and the councillor of the Eternal Rest Park, Marco Bittner, have met with the relatives and have conveyed their firm decision to investigate what happened.
‘Given the background that exists on this issue we are very concerned that there are more cases and therefore we will create an internal commission of enquiry in order to reach the ultimate consequences,’ said the mayor of Calpe, Ana Sala.