For sale: Benito Mussolini's brain and blood
Anonymous seller puts dictator's remains up for sale on eBay, shortly before the company pulled the ad.
By Haaretz Service Tags: Israel newsAn anonymous seller put Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's blood and brain up for sale Friday on the online auction Web site eBay, shortly before the company pulled the ad.
The initial asking price was 15,000 euros, but nobody had had a chance to bid, the company said, explaining the removal on the grounds that eBay did not authorize sales of human matter.
Alessandra Mussolini, the neo-fascist grand-daughter of the dictator, told Sky TG24 television: "It's a disgrace trying to sell my grand-father's brain and blood."
She said that the remains of her grand-father, who was hanged by partisans at the end of World War II, were normally kept in a Milan hospital, AFP reported. The television station said the hospital denied the claim.
This is very serious, these are the kinds of things we have to guard against," the British newspaper The Telegraph quoted her as saying.
Meanwhile, AFP reported on Monday that a new book of Mussolini's mistress' diaries revealed that the Italian dictator Benito was a rabid anti-Semite who called Adolf Hitler "a big romantic" and despised the pope.
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Other than Facist movements wanting a trophy or somebody with more money than brains of their own I can't see anybody seriously being interested in Musolinis brain. The man wasn't a great scientist like Einstein, he wasn't anybody noteworthy for anything other than politics so I can't see medical science being that interested in his brain. I would like to know why it wasn't buried with the rest of his body
He didn't act like he had any.