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Vandals steal corpse of former Cyprus president
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December 11, 2009, Friday
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Vandals dug up the grave of former Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos and made off with his corpse, security sources said yesterday.
Papadopoulos died one year ago and was buried at a cemetery on the outskirts of Nicosia, the capital. Authorities discovered the corpse was missing yesterday morning.
A witness at the graveyard said the coffin had been opened, and was empty. Family members and scores of police were at the scene.
A police spokesman had no immediate comment.
Papadopoulos, president of Cyprus from 2003 to February 2008, had led Greek Cypriot rejection of a United Nations reunification blueprint for ethnically divided Cyprus in 2004.
The Greek Cypriot side have now re-launched peace negotiations with Turkish Cypriots. The island was split in a 1974 Turkish invasion triggered by a brief Greek inspired coup.
Papadopoulos had sought re-election in February 2008, but lost to Demetris Christofias, a former partner in his centre-left coalition.
A few months later he was diagnosed with lung cancer, and died at the age of 74 on Dec. 12 2008.
Papadopoulos died one year ago and was buried at a cemetery on the outskirts of Nicosia, the capital. Authorities discovered the corpse was missing yesterday morning.
A witness at the graveyard said the coffin had been opened, and was empty. Family members and scores of police were at the scene.
A police spokesman had no immediate comment.
Papadopoulos, president of Cyprus from 2003 to February 2008, had led Greek Cypriot rejection of a United Nations reunification blueprint for ethnically divided Cyprus in 2004.
The Greek Cypriot side have now re-launched peace negotiations with Turkish Cypriots. The island was split in a 1974 Turkish invasion triggered by a brief Greek inspired coup.
Papadopoulos had sought re-election in February 2008, but lost to Demetris Christofias, a former partner in his centre-left coalition.
A few months later he was diagnosed with lung cancer, and died at the age of 74 on Dec. 12 2008.
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