Total indignation among the inhabitants of Tabarca, the smallest populated island in Spain with a total of 49 inhabitants, due to the desecration of a dozen graves in its municipal cemetery. The small town of Alicante reports having suffered various sacrileges for two consecutive days in its cemetery, acts of vandalism which the Civil Guard is already investigating.
The first of these occurred on the night of Friday to Saturday, when, according to neighbors’ accounts, the attackers attacked seven tombstones, with the sole aim, they believe, of see a dead body live. Later, they plundered other tombs, even opening a hole between the bricks of one of them, where a lifeless body could be seen in an advanced state of putrefaction.
According to neighbors in the Nueva Tabarca Facebook group, it was Tabarquinas who went to visit and remember their loved ones who found that “some heartless people” had opened the remains of several graves, “I don’t know how.. “what an ending.” “You can no longer rest in peace», they shouted.
A day later they again published a message on the aforementioned social network with more photos and with the phrase “they did it again“. “We have no words to express how we feel about what happened. This is how we found the cemetery this morning, it was not there yesterday afternoon after the first desecration,” they lamented.
At the same time, they recognized the difficulty of clarifying the authorship of the consecutive desecrations, but confirmed that the police and the Civil Guard are informed and have opened an investigation. investigation which they hope to conclude as quickly as possible by finding the criminals in the tomb.
