A video recorded on Monday and seen by the Guardian shows hearses queueing up outside Prima Portaâs administration office. Later in the clip, the cemeteryâs manager tells a group of funeral directors: âThere is no space.â
Ama said it was doing its utmost to resolve the situation and that it was working to create 60,000 new burial plots across the city. The company has also threatened to sue funeral directors, who earlier this month laid wreaths close to Romeâs city hall in protest, for âcausing alarmâ.
The alarm was in fact first raised in early April by a bereaved relative, Oberdan Zuccaroli, who mounted huge billboards across Rome with the message âMum, Iâm sorry Iâve not been able to have you buried yetâ. Zuccaroli, who owns a billboard company, told the Italian press that his mother died of a heart attack on 8 March. His aunt, who died on 9 January, had also not been buried.