By Monica Uriel MADRID, 27 (ANSA) – La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona today welcomed the institutional funeral for the 150 victims, 50 of them Spanish, the plane crashed by Germanwings passenger last month in Los Alpes.
The funeral was attended by kings Felipe and Letizia, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and the Catalan regional president, Artur Mas.
After a ceremony officiated by Cardinal de Barcelona, Lluis Martinez Sistach, were made by the representatives of the Evangelical, Jewish and Muslim communities.
After remembering those killed in the Alps when the passenger of a flight Germanwings covering the route Barcelona-Dusseldorf decided to crash the plane, Sistach remembered the victims of the earthquake in Nepal and immigrants dead in the Mediterranean.
“Everyone also carry in our hearts the pain and prayer for the victims and injured earthquake victims Nepal and the boats in the Mediterranean “, Sistach said in his homily.
It is” a religious celebration with representatives of different faiths to express our affection to the victims and their families “he added.
The representative of the Jewish community in Barcelona, Jorge Burdman, said that” there are no words in the dictionary to explain pain in any language. “
explained that in the Hebrew tradition, when you lose a loved one, saved seven days of meditation in solitude, then 30 days in the company and finally one year “to return to life”.
Burdman stressed that “in a globalized world by injustice, is better now globalize the solidarity “. The secretary general of the Federation of Islamic Council of Catalonia, Mohammed Halhoul, wanted to thank “the work of authorities and volunteers who acted from the outset”.
The ceremony was attended by 1,500 people, including 600 families victims as well as students of the Institute of Llinars del Vallés (Barcelona), where they spent several days 16 young Germans who died in the plane.
students behaved Llinars del Vallés 150 candles, one for each victim, which burned in the steps of the altar of the Sagrada Familia, designed by Antonio Gaudi. Lufthansa Chairman and CEO of Germanwings, Carsten Sphor and Thomas Winkelmann, and members of the emergency teams of Spain, France and Germany After the ceremony, the kings, Rajoy, Cardinal Sistach and evangelical representatives were also present , Jewish and Muslim gave his condolences and tried to console one by one all family, which lasted over an hour.
The remains of the Spanish victims will be repatriated during May, announced today the authorities the Catalan regional government. UR / ACZ
27/04/2015 21:03
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