According to a report by Spanish Radio 20 Minutes on November 13, 2020, on November 13, in Almeria, Spain, the Spanish International High Court ruled that the Ministry of the Interior should compensate the local family with 137,000 Euros (approximately RMB 1.07 million) for internal affairs. The Ministry only notified the family in 2017 that their family members were killed in a car accident 27 years ago and their bodies were returned.
It is reported that on December 8, 1990, a car accident occurred on the N-342 section of Granada, and a 24-year-old man was killed on the spot. However, due to the lack of effective communication between the police and the procuratorate, the man’s body has been stored in the mortuary of the local prosecutor’s office and was not returned to his family until 2017.
According to Spanish media reports, on November 13, the Spanish National High Court ruled that although it is “difficult to assess the mental damage suffered by the claimant”, the Ministry of the Interior should pay 65,000 euros (approximately RMB 507,000) to the mother of the deceased. Yuan) and paid 18,000 Euros (approximately RMB 560,000) to the four brothers and sisters of the deceased.
It is reported that the family had previously applied to the court for a claim of 304,000 euros (approximately RMB 2.37 million), but after an assessment, the court determined that the Ministry of the Interior had to pay the family a total of 137,000 euros (approximately RMB 1.07 million).
The judgment emphasized that the Ministry of the Interior had "rare delays" in identifying the dead body and informing their relatives of the death, and emphasized that "in such a long period of time, as there is no news about the whereabouts of their relatives, the claimant is anxious. And worry.” The judgment emphasized the extent of the claimant’s “mental damage”, that is, the victim’s mother and siblings could not know the whereabouts of their relatives.
at the entrance of the court in Almeria
According to Spanish media reports, the man has been regarded by the police as a "missing person" for many years, and his family has been looking for his whereabouts. The family stated that they reported the man’s disappearance to the police station on December 14, 1990, but it was not until June 12, 2017 that they received the death notice and asked them to go and claim the body.
The Spanish Ministry of the Interior has admitted that there has indeed been a lack of coordination between the "Police Missing Persons Database" and the "Police Department Corpse Database", and admitted that this "incoordination" has resulted in nearly 27 years of identification and investigation of the corpse. Delay in delivering it to the family. The
judgment stated: “For people who are related to the victim, in addition to the pain caused by his death itself, it also means the suffering of other uncertain factors, because the family cannot understand the victim’s personal situation and cannot be normal. Under the circumstances, fulfill the obligation to mourn the deceased."
