of kidnapping one is saved ... even the dead.
The most famous case of this macabre form of crime was the theft of the remains of former Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos, whose body was exhumed a few months ago Deftera Cemetery, near Nicosia, a day before the first anniversary of his death. Police
d IJO was not an act of vandalism, since neither the headstone was damaged and the coffin away from the tomb. The officers found no other damage to the tomb. Only the absence of the body of the former official. Some unknownmoved without mechanical assistance, a slab of 250 kilos during a power outage, and fled with the embalmed body.
Shortly after the theft of the corpse, The kidnappers demanded ransom to return the remains. Although never released the sum, was allegedly a large sum of money.
Although the president's family had refused to ransom the corpse, it is assumed that a third person gave information to relatives about the whereabouts of the remains of Papadopoulos and the identity of the body snatchers.
former president's body was found in a cemetery three miles from the cemetery where he was exhumed. tests confirmed that the DNA found embalmed corpse in the tomb of an old man, belongs to Papadopoulos.
The kidnappers of the dead were captured and learned that the gang leader, who is in jail, hatched the plan from prison. Van
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Archbishops After the nightmare of the family Papadopoulos, now the target of the hijackers landed on the remains of two archbishops Cypriots, whose graves were desecrated, without being able to steal the bodies.
a confusing incident at a cemetery in Nicosia, the capital of the island affected the coffins of two archbishops, Sofronio Third and Second Cyril, who led the church in Cyprus in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, respectively.
At first it was thought that the bodies had been stolen. But then it was reported that only marble tombstones had been removed. The tomb a third archbishop also was forced.
Police said a man was arrested in connection with the destruction of the three tombs.