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PARIS (AP) An infant Gypsy girl who died suddenly will now have a resting place after one mayor refused to allow her to be buried in his town south of Paris, where the parents live in a camp.
The girl's funeral will be held on Monday in a nearby town 10 days after her death
"I didn't hesitate a shadow of a second," Wissous Mayor Richard Trinquier told BFM-TV on Saturday.
He said that not to provide a grave for the child who died in a hospital, reportedly of sudden infant death syndrome, is "humanly unthinkable."
http://news.yahoo.com/gypsy-infant-refused-burial-france-gets-grave-202303577.html
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)Unless you're Muslim or Roma
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)I say that because he was awful...a real bigot
Warpy
(111,267 posts)and a bug up their collective ass about "consecrated ground" admitting only Christians, even the ones who were born in Christian families but never believed a word of it.
I'm glad there's a compassionate mayor who got the point: an infant has no religion, it just is.
Peace to that poor Roma family who had to have their daughter unburied for 10 days.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)1step
(380 posts)Or 1935?
Omaha Steve
(99,653 posts)For doing the right thing.