Moroccan Police Block Burial of Expatriate, Forcing Family to Inter Body in Ceuta

This Moroccan officer prevented on Sunday the transfer of the body of the Moroccan who resided in Ceuta, even though all the documents for his transfer were in order. The family of the deceased had obtained on March 13, 2020, i.e. one day after the closure of the borders for health reasons due to the Covid-19 crisis, the authorization of the delegation of the Ministry of the Interior in M’diq to transfer the body through the Tarajal border.

The Civil Guard and National Police agents at the border did not pose any problem, after verifying all the documents for the transfer of the body of the Moroccan. But the Moroccan officer at the Moroccan border did not recognize the document from the Ministry of the Interior authorizing this transfer, considering it to be obsolete, reports Mundo Islam. Despite the insistence of the family who tried to reason with him and make him understand that the deceased wished to be buried in his hometown of M’diq, the policeman did not give in, forcing the family to return to Ceuta with the body.

The family had to initiate a new procedure with the Ceuta police to request authorization to bury their son in the autonomous city. The deceased was finally buried in the Sidi Embarek cemetery, in the presence of a few people. All this, because of a policeman who did not recognize an official document from the Moroccan Ministry of the Interior, preventing the family from respecting the last wish of the deceased, to pay him a final tribute and to bury him with dignity.