Body of Cyprus president stolen from grave

Posted By Joshua Keating Friday, December 11, 2009 - 10:40 AM Share

Here's your freaky story for the day:

Grave robbers stole the corpse of former Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos after digging up his coffin on the eve of the first anniversary of the statesmen's death, police said Friday.

Papadopoulos was a hardline Greek Cypriot nationlist who opposed reconciliation with Turkish-occupied Northern Cyprus, so attention is probably going to be focused on Turkish Cypriot groups.  

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