An 83-year-old woman, who died last June, was cremated at the Père-Lachaise crematorium while her family wanted burial in her native Normandy. The city of Paris says it is “ready to be a civil party”.
“An extremely regrettable human error.” An 83-year-old deceased was cremated at the Père-Lachaise crematorium, a place where the body was kept for a transfer to a Norman cemetery for burial.
“We have strict procedures. The employee has missed two that day,” said Xavier Thoumieux, co-founder of the operating company, Funecap, with the Parisian.
The coffin which was to join a hearse was finally transported to the crematorial oven. Once the coffin has been placed, “it was too late: the door could no longer open,” adds Xavier Thoumieux.
The city “ready to build civil party”
After this “error”, the city of Paris claims to be held “ready to build civil party in the event that judicial consequences are committed”. For the city, which has the crematorium, the act of cremation “was carried out in manifest contradiction with the procedures in force”.
An “investigation mission” will thus be undertaken in order to “establish the facts with precision, to analyze the procedures in place and their implementation or to identify any shortcomings or organizational failures”, affirms the city, to the Parisian.
