The Colonia mayor is proceeding to cremate some 2,500 skeletal remains from cemeteries in the department. The idea is to make room in the collapsed cemeteries that several cities have.
However, this decision generated a dispute that is now in court and that can cost the mayor more than three million pesos.
Conflict that is already in Justice
In this matter there is already a judicial question raised, which can make the mayor lose several million pesos.
It turns out that a company from Tarariras, “the only one in the country that has a mobile crematorium,” its owner Sonia Romero told EL ECO. “They threw me out,” she said. “It’s burning.”
Romero indicated that “an abbreviated tender was made and our company had the maximum score, but I don’t know why they gave it to Previsora Colonia, which is the one that is in charge.”
Romero also indicated that “the mayor gave it as urgent, he did not give explanations, they only notified us.” And he remembered that “we have the first mobile oven in Uruguay,” he said.
That is why “we could go to each cemetery and we even have a generator so as not to spend electricity on the mayor’s office.”
In this sense, “everything is in a legal action,” she confirmed, “my lawyer is in this but Justice in this country is very slow, but I am sure that we were left out due to an agreement with them and it does not seem fair to us. So we are going to fight it from a legal standpoint,” she said.
Romero did not confirm the figure, but we learned unofficially that it exceeds three million pesos, and that if it is found that the tender was entered into, it could condemn the mayor to pay this money.
