Cuba’s foreign affairs minister has apologized to a Montreal-area family after they were sent the wrong body following the death of a loved one.
Faraj Jarjour, 68, died on March 22 in Varadero, Cuba during a family vacation.
The family paid $10,000 to have his body returned to Laval, Que. with them. But when they went to identify the father of two, a Russian man about 20 years younger was in the casket.
“I talked by phone with [Minister Mélanie Joly] about unfortunate incident related to the transfer of corpse of Canadian citizen who died in Cuba,” wrote Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez on X. “Cuban authorities investigate to clarify incident. I conveyed heartfelt condolences & apologies to relatives and friends of the deceased.”
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The family was devastated after the tragic incident and is still waiting to find out what happened to Jarjour’s body.
Joly, Canada’s foreign minister, called it an …