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After the case became known, the defendant decided not to carry the coffins to the grieving families. (Symbolic image: Keystone)
Switzerland
The director of a Valais funeral home has been sentenced to a conditional fine for disturbing the peace of the dead and attempting fraud.
He wanted to burn two caskets without lids so that the pieces worked could be displayed in his company. “The accused was punished with a conditional fine of 150 daily rates of 450 francs and a fine of 6,300 francs. A two-year trial period has been set, “prosecutor Olivier Elsig, who was in charge of the case, told the Keystone-SDA news agency on Wednesday.
The owner of a funeral home in Lower Valais recovered the coffin lids in 2017 after two abdication ceremonies at the Platta funeral center in Sion and placed a cloth over the faces of the deceased, as the indictment says.
When the crematory employees saw the two open coffins, they refused to carry out the cremations. They insisted that the undertaker return the covers. The funeral director initially refused, but later hired employees to screw chipboard into the coffins.
After the case became known, the defendant decided not to carry the coffins to the grieving families.
