Claudinho’s Widow Sues Cemetery for Moving Singer’s Body Without Authorization

Claudinho’s Widow Sues Cemetery for Moving Singer’s Body Without Authorization


Vanessa Alves discovered through social media that her husband’s bones were placed in the general ossuary

Vanessa Alveswidow of Claudinefrom the duo Claudinho and Buchechadiscovered that her husband’s remains had been moved to the cemetery where he was buried. Vanessa, who learned of the incident through social media, decided to report the Memorial do Carmo, in Rio de Janeiro.




Claudinho’s widow discovered the change of graves thanks to a fan who went to visit the grave. After the video was published, she went to the cemetery and discovered that her husband’s bones had been moved from the perpetual grave to the general ossuary.

In the lawsuit against the Memorial do Carmo, Vanessa is seeking R$ 1 million in compensation for material and moral damages.

“There were other mortal remains in the tomb that belonged to him. I went to the administration to find out and then they informed me that they exhumed them and placed them in the general ossuary. But I understand a perpetual tomb as a place that is the eternal home of the loved one,” he told the newspaper. The globe.

Although she claims she was not informed of the change, the Memorial do Carmo said it sent telegrams to the widow. If Vanessa wants to move the bones to a grave, she will have to buy another.

“They said they sent several telegrams to my house. But nowadays nobody uses telegrams. Besides, I live at the same address and I can say that I have never received anything from the Memorial do Carmo. This made me very sad. I am also human, I also suffer.”

The cemetery has not commented on the incident.



Claudinho’s Widow Sues Cemetery for Moving Singer’s Body Without Authorization

Source: Terra

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