A 68 year old Canadianidentified as Faraj Allah Jarjourwas vacationing with his family in Cuba when he died on a beach Varadero. A month later his body was repatriated, but upon arrival It contained the remains of another person.
The coffin that arrived from Cuba It had the body of a Russian man at least 20 years younger than the Canadian. Additionally, the body had a lot more hair and tattoos, when Jarjour was bald.
Cuba: how the Canadian died
According to the daughter of the deceased, Miriam JarjourOn March 22, he was swimming with his father when he suffered a cardiac arrest and died during his second day of vacation.
In addition, he revealed that the man’s body was covered while waiting for a vehicle that would take him to Havana. There she remained on a lounge chair in the sun for more than eight hours until help arrived and, from that moment on, it is not known what happened to him.
Jarjour said that from the Canadian consulate they gave him all the instructions to transfer his father’s remains. For that, he had to pay 10,000 Canadian dollars, that is, US$7,300.
When the daughter of the deceased contacted the Canadian consulate in Cubafar from providing a solution, They blamed what happened on the island company who coordinates the repatriation of the remains. Since that moment Jarjour has been desperate searching for her father’s body and sending emails to government officials.
“Until now we don’t have an answer. We continue waiting. “I don’t know what to tell them,” said Jarjour, who also expressed being “devastated.” Regarding the body that was mistakenly sent to Canada, Faraj Allah’s daughter clarified that It has already been sent to your country.
The ordeal that the Canadian family is experiencing
The situation that Faraj Allah Jarjour’s family has had to go through with the disappearance of his body has had a great emotional impact in his wife and mother of Jarjour. For that reason, it has been she, along with her brother, who have sought to locate the remains of her father.
According to Miriam, they have already spent 25,000 Canadian dollars in search and 15,000 Canadian dollars that were allocated to the funeral service which was canceled once they discovered that the body that arrived from Cuba It was not his father’s.
For its part, the Canada Global Affairs Agency He maintained that consular officials work together with the Cuban authorities and the family to resolve the situation. However, the man’s daughter feels that she has no answers: ““What I want is for someone to help me find my father.”he expressed.
Source: Ambito
