Moroccan Woman’s Body Buried in Guadeloupe After Two-Year Delay Due to Administrative Issues

29 February 2020 – bySylvanus@Bladi · 1 min read

The Moroccan Fatima Ouhcine, who died on January 4, 2018, was finally buried on Thursday, February 27, 2020, in the Abymes cemetery. Her body had spent two years in a refrigerated drawer of a funeral home, due to the refusal to issue a burial permit.

The burial took place in the presence of five members of the Muslim community of Guadeloupe. Fatima Ouhcine’s body was buried in the common grave in the Abymes cemetery, reports Franceinfo.

It took the broadcast of a report on the Guadeloupe La 1ère airwaves, and the intervention of the Pointe-à-Pitre sub-prefecture, for the Abymes town hall to issue the burial permit in 48 hours, on Friday, February 21, 2020. According to the same source, this long wait is justified by an administrative dispute between two parties: the funeral home and the said town hall.

Fatima Ouhcine died on January 4, 2018, in a squat in Morne Udol, in the Abymes. None of the deceased’s relatives went to claim her body. This Moroccan resident abroad (MRE) apparently had no known family in this commune of Guadeloupe.

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