To the pain over the loss of her baby, Tracey Bolton, a resident of Chaddesden (UK), adds the anger and helplessness of seeing the toys she leaves on Jamie's grave in the local cemetery disappear. Someone has been stealing them for years. And it is that grave robbers are still active today .
In Madrid they have recently performed in the necropolis of the South and La Almudena, from where they have taken crucifixes, figures, unengraved tombstones, ornaments and screws. They are robberies that are usually perpetrated by gangs that resell materials by weight in junkyards.
In Éibar (Guipúzcoa), two cemetery workers were charged with stealing teeth, rings and other gold objects from mortal remains unclaimed by relatives after the niches were emptied.
More cases: Rosa Cuenca, the mother of the offender El Vaquilla, was buried with jewels that were valued at 4,000 euros and that have been snatched from the grave. And the French actor Gérard Depardieu has confessed that during his adolescence he helped a professional desecrate graves and strip the deceased of jewelry and shoes.
