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Thieves steal Cyprus ex-president's body from grave | France 24

AFP - Thieves opened the grave of former Cypriot president Tassos Papadopoulos and stole his corpse during the night, state television reported on Friday, interrupting its normal programming.

The current leader of Papadopoulos's centre-right DIKO party, Marios Garoyan, condemned what he called a "heinous and terrible crime."

Andros Kyprianou, head of the communist AKEL party that leads the Mediterranean island's government, expressed outrage at the crime, which came the day before a memorial service to mark the first anniversary of Papadopoulos's death.



*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Fri Dec 11th, 2009 at 02:19:30 PM EST
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Strange.  Does this act have some kind of cultural or symbolic meaning in that part of the world?  
by paving on Fri Dec 11th, 2009 at 08:06:39 PM EST
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Desecrating a grave has the same symbolic meaning everywhere in the world, I think.

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sat Dec 12th, 2009 at 04:40:38 AM EST
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This might have been a criminal enterprise. Compare the Flick grave robbery case.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Sat Dec 12th, 2009 at 06:43:09 AM EST
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