“If that risk cannot be stated with certainty, neither can it be ruled out.”
Senegal’s Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a ban on repatriating the bodies of citizens living abroad who have died of coronavirus, rejecting a plea from their distraught relatives.
The exact number of Senegalese citizens who have died from COVID-19 overseas is unclear, but families have pointed to a figure of around 80, including 40 in France alone. But on Thursday, the president of the court’s administrative chamber said the issue of whether bringing back the bodies of coronavirus victims is a risk was contested in medical circles.
Dying in Paris in April at age 71, Mendy’s father had emigrated to France from Senegal in 1968 and worked at carmaker Renault until his retirement in 2009, but had mostly kept his large family of three wives and seven children in his native country. For the moment, Mendy is paying 55 euros a day to keep his father in the morgue. “I have no choice,” he said.
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