After the weekend between November 8 and 10, a shocking discovery was made at the Forest Cemetery in Kalix. When several parents went to visit their children’s graves, they discovered that the graves had been vandalized.
Ornaments and lanterns that the family had placed there were gone, says a mother in a feature from SVT Norrbotten.
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Several children’s graves vandalized
Her son’s grave was not the only one to have been vandalized. In total, it was discovered that 12 graves had been stripped of various personal items and ornaments.
The majority of these were children’s graves.
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Another parent tells us that her daughter died of cancer at just 12 years old. Even her grave had been vandalized.
– I don’t know if it was children, young people or adults who did this. But we need to talk to each other about what graves are for and what they mean. Maybe the cemetery administration can also arrange some kind of surveillance so that this doesn’t happen again, she tells SVT.
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Photo: Janerik Henriksson/TT. Up to the grave owners to report
According to Herbert Sundellcemetery director in Kalix, it is the grave owners themselves who must report the vandalism.
– We are keen that those who have graves here should feel safe about their graves. If it is then about us deploying extra surveillance or controls, I cannot say today, he says SVT.
The police in Norrbotten have not yet received any report from the grave owners.
– Of course, it is conceivable that someone will come in, points out Elisabeth Glaaspress contact at the police in the North, in a comment to News24.
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100 name tags stolen from graves
Kalix is not alone in having its cemetery vandalized. At the Forest Cemetery in Kungsbacka, just over 100 nameplates were stolen at the end of September, something that Today’s News was the first to report on.
A cemetery in Borlänge has also gotten rid of a large number of tiles.
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