Lack of respect for the dead

Last Saturday evening I was shocked by a TVM feature showing a fashion shoot in the hallowed ground of the Addolorata Cemetery. Tartly clad young women were cavorting and posing on the parvis of the neo-Gothic style church at the top of the cemetery...

Last Saturday evening I was shocked by a TVM feature showing a fashion shoot in the hallowed ground of the Addolorata Cemetery. Tartly clad young women were cavorting and posing on the parvis of the neo-Gothic style church at the top of the cemetery and in front of private interment chapels and beside family tombstones. Who got this great idea of using a cemetery for the backdrop for this charade?

Was permission requested from the cemetery superintendent - if there is one - or from the health authorities? If so, was permission granted and by whom?

Or did this TV crew and models gatecrash our national cemetery without anybody having a clue? Wasn't TVM insensitive in screening this event and does the Broadcasting Authority have any say in the matter?

Surely good taste and our respect for the dead should have prompted all concerned to stop such a fashion shoot from taking place and from being shown on our national TV station.

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