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Burial society sued over cash-for-tomb request

March 10, 2016 11:33

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Simon Rocker,

Simon Rocker

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A London financier's grave in a continental cemetery has remained unadorned for four years because the local burial society is demanding 100,000 euros for a tombstone, his representatives say.

The family and executors of the estate of the late Albert Fuss, who died in 2012, aged 76, have asked the Belgian courts to intervene in order to put up a commemorative stone.

Mr Fuss is buried next to his mother, Rosa, in a cemetery in Putte, Holland, administered by the nearby Machsike Hadass community of Antwerp.

But the chairman of Machsike Hadass, Pinchas Kornfeld, has defended the demand for a substantial contribution before agreeing to a tombstone.