On 28 April 1945, Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci were shot on the outskirts of the village of Mezzegra in Lombardy. Their bodies were then taken to Milan, where they were hung upside down at a service station to publicly confirm their demise. On 1 May, Mussolini was buried in Milan's cemetery in an unmarked grave in a plot for the poor.
On 23 April 1946, three neo-fascists led by Domenico Leccisi dug up Mussolini's corpse from the tomb and took it to an unknown destination.
The remains were discovered on 12 August that same year in a monastery in Pavia. They remained unburied for ten years due to political disagreement.
In 1956, Mussolini's remains were buried in the family crypt in his hometown of Predappio next to his son, wife, and two uncles.
In 2009, unknown people put Mussolini's blood and brain samples up for sale on eBay. The dictator's granddaughter Alessandra claimed that his grandfather's blood samples and brain fragments were stolen from a hospital in Milan, where an autopsy was performed in 1945. The hospital doctors denied this and claimed that the body was never in their possession.
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Interfax News Agency