A 60-year-old resident of Avilés (Asturias) was arrested this Saturday after the police verified that he had removed the flowers from his mother’s grave, removed the tombstone and broken the interior brick partition to extract the coffin and drag it. to his car and, later, taken, with the body of the deceased, to his home. Apparently, the man, who has been released, was very affected by the death of his mother, because it happened suddenly and he desecrated the grave to verify that she was truly dead.
It is the gruesome story lived this Saturday in the Asturian cemetery of San Cristóbal de Avilés. The man carried out the entire operation before the astonished gaze of several witnesses who ordered him to give up his efforts. But the heartbroken son took his deceased mother home while shouting that they had taken her from there without his permission. The woman, who was 90 years old, died just the day before Christmas Eve and was buried on December 24.
It was the parish priest of La Carriona himself who reported what happened to the National Police who went to the home where the man was with the body of his mother. He was arrested and the coffin with the woman’s body returned to the parish cemetery; bricked up again in the corresponding grave, but a few hours later the coffin was removed by court order and transferred to the funeral home.
The titular magistrate of the Court of First Instance and Instruction number 7 of Avilés, acting as guard, ordered the identification, review and photo of the body, deposited in the La Carriona premises by the Scientific Police. Likewise, he ordered that the man be transferred to the San Agustín Hospital, where the psychiatry department considered that his admission was not necessary, so the National Police took charge of the man as a detainee and later he was placed at the disposal of the court on duty. who decreed his freedom after listening to his explanations.
The detainee revealed that he only wanted to verify that his mother had died; He expressed regret for what happened and promised not to carry out acts again at the tomb that he could visit, although he was warned that measures would be taken against him if he repeated a similar action against his mother’s tomb. .
This Sunday, the woman’s body was returned to its niche. The proceedings remain open for a possible crime of grave violation.
