A Barcelona court is investigating the desecration of more than 160 graves last summer in the Montjuïc cemetery, in the Catalan capital, with five people investigated; facts for which the municipal company in charge of the facility filed a complaint.
As reported this Wednesday by sources from the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC), the Investigative Court number 10 of Barcelona has a case open for these events, for which there are five people under investigation.
The municipal company in charge of the site, Cementiris de Barcelona, ??filed a complaint last summer, after verifying that 162 tombs, of the more than 175,000 graves in this necropolis, had been desecrated.
When the events occurred, according to municipal sources, the company began the process of communication and contact with the owners of the niches, a complex job since some of the graves were old and dated from the 60s or 70s.
The procedure, which is open for an alleged crime of damage and against respect for the deceased, has five people under investigation, one of whom already testified last March, while the other four are summoned to testify next Friday , according to the TSJC.
For their part, sources from Cementiris in Barcelona have recalled that they filed the complaint in the summer of 2023 as a result of the desecration of some niches, and that since then they have collaborated, when required, with the competent judicial authority and with the Mossos de ‘Squadron.
