Benito Mussolini’s granddaughter demanded a police investigation on Friday after the late Italian dictator’s blood and brain were reportedly offered for sale on eBay, the online auction website.
Alessandra Mussolini, a right-wing MP, said she was outraged and upset when she heard reports that the remains of her grandfather were being sold online. The initial asking price was 15,000 euros, or £13,000, but nobody had had a chance to bid, eBay said.
The online auctioneer does not permit the sale of body parts on its website and removed the listing hours after it was posted. Miss Mussolini said the remains, which were reportedly contained in three glass vials, could have been stolen from a hospital in Milan where an autopsy was carried out on the dictator’s body after he was killed and strung up by partisans at the end of the Second World War.
“I was advised this morning that pieces of my grandfather’s brain and some of his blood were being sold on eBay for 15,000 euros. ”This is very serious, these are the kinds of things we have to guard against,” the Right-wing politician and former showgirl said. But the Policlinico hospital said the samples it took from Mussolini’s body were destroyed in 1947, two years after his death.
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i will buy it for £1.00 lol
”This is very serious, these are the kinds of things we have to guard against,” ….
Errr, yes of course… THIS is the sort of thing we have to guard against.
Pax, amor et concordia.
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I would’t want it thats just mad.
lol omg eww anyway why would he do that well aprt from the money i guess duh
My husband has Ronald Reagan’s…… Do you want to swap?????
I had to do a double take to make sure the article actually said “he Right-wing politician and former showgirl said.”
that part was a good laugh.
Very nice party item. Must be a hoot at dinner parties!
“These are the kinds of things we have to guard against…”
Absolutely! Any home that is not equiped with an anti-organ-theft handbook is under serious threat! Purchase your ‘Burke and Hare’s Guide to Defending the Tomb’ today from Ebay.
Who would want those parts? Hannibal with a love for history?
I myself would not deny that I would be say at least astonished if I’d discover that the body parts of someone I know that has dies were on the market … def. would not want that either, although at the same time I’d wonder .. why would someone want to have them?
The human brain can be used in occult ritual. Sorcerers may choose to devour parts of it, particularly that of a powerful person such as a fallen enemy, a king or tribal leader. A portion of the brain having been preserved in formaldehyde would not be suitable for consumption, however, but possession of it may provide the bearer with perceived magical powers. Several decades ago there was a murder/suicide on a local farm. Following the crime the local house clearance firm emptied the place of its contents. It was a done thing to check sofas and armchairs for lost change and in doing so a piece of dried brain was discovered. The owner of the firm kept it and preserved it somehow so it resembled a small walnut-like ivory netsuke. He would hand it to people and allow them to guess what it was then delight in the shock of the reveal.