The Teguise cemetery houses the unnamed tomb of little Alhassane Bangoura, a baby who was born and died in a boat heading to Lanzarote four years ago.
His mother gave birth in the boat, with the engine broken and adrift in the middle of the Atlantic. It was January 8, 2020, when the precarious boat in which this newborn and his mother were traveling was intercepted 15 miles from Arrecife after three days lost at sea.
When he was rescued, little Alhassane Bangoura was transferred by ambulance to the hospital, but the paramedics could not do anything to save his life. That same day, his mother was also transferred to the hospital after having suffered a difficult birth.
The story of his short life and death has now been rescued by the British newspaper The Guardian in a project that collects the more than 1,000 unnamed graves that are hidden in the migration routes of the European Union.
Since then, the remains of little Alhassane Bangoura remain buried in the municipality of Teguise, without an official inscription with his name, only a small stone with it engraved. Next to it, rests the figure of an angel and two bouquets of plastic flowers.
The space chosen to house the small tomb of Alhassane Bangoura was the Muslim area of the Teguise cemetery. His mother could not attend his burial, because by then she had already been transferred to a center in Gran Canaria.
Although the tomb still does not have, four years later, an official inscription, his mother took care of painting on stone the name of her little one, with the message: "I will miss you very much my baby. I love you."
