Catalonia’s Muslim Community Faces Cemetery Space Shortage Amid Pandemic

The situation has prompted the president of the Union of Muslim Associations in Catalonia, Mohammed El Ghaidouni, to call for help from the President of the Catalan Government, Quim Torra, urging him to provide more funeral concessions in order to be able to bury the Muslim victims of the coronavirus.

Although the association does not have exact figures, the president indicated that the number of Moroccans and Muslims in general, victims of the coronavirus, has been on the rise since the start of the epidemic.

He also refuted the rumors that the remains of Moroccans had been cremated.