Questione giuridica chiave
Whether asking an unqualified employee to remove pacemakers from corpses constitutes profanation of a corpse under Art. 262 ch. 1 CP and whether justification by professional duty or necessity applies.
Decisione estratta
Yes. Having a non-professional perform a surgical-like removal on a corpse is disrespectful and intentional profanation; no legal professional duty or necessity justified it.
Motivazione estratta
The act lacked the respect required toward a corpse. Only a qualified medical professional may ordinarily perform such removal; no federal or cantonal norm authorized funeral staff to do so, and the explosion risk was not an imminent danger.