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| Apropos news that the body of the late president of Cyprus, Tassos Papadopoulos, has been stolen from its grave, this from Victorino Matus
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This
reminded me of the bizarre case of Benito Mussolini, whose body, unlike
in the Cypriot case, was stolen from its grave by a Fascist
sympathizer, Domenico Leccisi, in April 1946. (And in a rather nice
touch, authorities discovered the empty grave on Easter Sunday.) Let us
hope Mr. Papadopoulos does not have the same journey as Il Duce, who
was at one point stuffed in a steamer trunk and kept in a closet and
was not returned to his family crypt until August 1957. (Before that,
Mussolini's family did receive slivers of his brain, which, upon his
memorable execution, had been sent to St. Elizabeth's Hospital in
Washington, D.C., to check for evidence of syphilis. The test came back
negative. Turns out he was a megalomaniac for some other reason.)
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