Abdülkadir Sargın’s household is in search of solutions about why his physique was cremated in Germany and the way a hospital in Hannover combined up two lifeless our bodies.
Sargın, a Turkish citizen, died within the emergency ward of the Hannover Medical School Hospital final week, officers stated.
During the funeral preparations on Tuesday, Sargın’s members of the family have been shocked and confused once they noticed that the particular person within the coffin was a whole stranger. After calling the hospital, they have been knowledgeable that the workers had mistakenly handed over his physique to a different household and that he was cremated. Cremation is just not permitted within the Islamic custom and it’s as a desecration of the deceased.
Sargın’s nephew Barış Sargın advised Demirören News Agency (DHA) on Friday that the cremation procedures normally take three weeks and now they anticipate a proof from authorities why his uncle was cremated “in just two days.”
“They have to ease our suspicions,” he stated.
Sargın died of a mind hemorrhage at MHH hospital in Hannover. The 71-year-old man’s physique was then transported to a funeral firm for an Islamic burial, upon the household’s request.
But his son Kerem noticed it was not his father when the physique was taken to be washed (an Islamic ritual) and contacted the hospital. An intern working on the hospital’s morgue admitted that she made a mistake and combined up our bodies.
“We immediately contacted other officials and discovered that my uncle’s body was cremated within two days of his death,” Sargın stated.
“We are really curious why they rushed to cremate his body. I wonder what they are hiding from us,” Sargın added.
He stated officers provided to present his uncle’s ashes to the household, however they refused. “How can we be certain that if it is indeed his ashes?” he stated.
Sargın stated the household was contacted by the Turkish consulate and the Turkish Foreign Ministry. Turkish officers promised to comply with up on the incident and the consulate will present a lawyer for the household. He stated German police additionally launched an investigation into the mix-up.
