Burial place has fallen into severe disrepair, to dismay of families of those laid to rest there
ild vegetation smothers the crumbling tombs, most of them dating back to the 1800s, that line the square beneath the imposing, or Mother Church, at Poggioreale monumental cemetery in the southern Italian city of Naples.
“It was as if there had been an earthquake,” said Pina Caccavale, whose parents and grandfather were buried in one of the niches. “There were coffins hanging from the buildings, you could see skulls. You can imagine our desperation, it was like experiencing the pain of the deaths of our loved ones all over again.”Photograph: Roberto Salomone/The Guardian
The cemetery reopened in September, only for the two buildings to completely cave in two weeks later. Then, in mid-October, part of ain a different part of Poggioreale collapsed, once again leaving several coffins dangling precariously in the air. It is unclear what caused the third collapse. Father Giuseppe Tufo, the confraternities director for Naples diocese, said the first two collapsed buildings were under its care and the third was privately owned.
Francesco Emilio Borelli, a Europe Greens party councillor for the wider Campania region, said he had been decrying the situation at Naples’ cemeteries, particularly Poggioreale, for years.is to Paris,” he said. “Instead, it is the mirror of the state of abandonment of our region. If we have no respect for the living, how would there be respect for the dead? There are scamsters, the mafia … cases of tombs being emptied and illegally resold.
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