Following the refusal, six great-grandchildren wrote a letter to the President of the Assembly of the Republic, José Pedro Aguiar-Branco, “understanding that going to court to oppose the transfer is useless and unpleasant.”
They ask to reconsider this initiative and propose to install a tombstone. “We hereby commemorate V. Except that the idea of transportation was initiated by an organization that does not and cannot own a corpse,” the statement says.
The author of Os Mayas was buried in Paris, where he died. He was then transferred to the Alto de São João in Lisbon, and in 1989 he went to Santa Cruz do Douro, where he is buried with his eldest daughter.
Author: Rita Monteiro
Source: CM Jornal
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