A man whose death was also comedy

According to the Mehr News Agency, the online news site reported on the stolen of Charlie Chaplin's body and wrote: Wednesday evening, March 10, just two months after the death of Charlie Chaplin, actor and renowned director of Hollywood, his coffin with his body from the “Sorsir-Sur OhLocated 2 kilometers east of Lausanne, Switzerland, was stolen. Shortly thereafter, the thieves demanded a lot of money from his family to return. A strange and scary story that seemed to come out of one of their films, but it was true.

Charlie Chaplin, though only 1.5 meters tall, was one of the greats of the cinema. He died on Christmas Day, at the age of nine, after an adventurous life, and in the Cemes-Sur-Woo Cemetery OhNear the mansion that decades His resident It was buried. But this was just the beginning of a strange story.

Chaplin's eternal relaxation did not last long after burial. On the first night to March 2, the same as Wednesday, March 10, two men in black and armed clothes in the flash and Bill quickly through the cemetery The sector They passed. They were car mechanics, and both at that point are unemployed. One is 2 years old and the other 2 years old, Bulgarian and Polish. The two dreams of setting up a large repair shop, along with a car lift with many customers. The same dream led them to go to the world's famous comedian grave at night and take the grave.

They stood up until they removed the Chaplin coffin from the soil. Finally, they pulled the 5 -kilo oak casket out of the ground and transported it from the cemetery and put it in a pre -prepared station. They were confident that this map would soon bring them a rich wealth. But now with this heavy coffin and the famous corpse inside what they should do?

Thieves of the corpse, a remote corn farm on the outskirts of the village NovilleNot too far away from where the rud Ron He was thrown into Lake Geneva, they found. A large pit in that dug, and the coffin containing the corpse was hidden in the heart of the earth. Then they prepared for the next step.

Fake thieves

By discovering an empty grave, rumors rapidly increased; Was the work of antiques hunters? Was Chaplin to be buried in England based on his old wish? Some even went so far as to think that Chaplin was a Jewish and so it should have been buried in the Jewish cemetery.

But the thieves finally broke their silence and demanded $ 6,000 in exchange for the coffin. Meanwhile, the news of the robbery of Chaplin's body was more complicated everywhere, and more strangely happened; It was no longer just grave thieves asking for money; Rather, other people who sought to abuse demanded a ransom spouse and children. They claimed that theft was their own job. This was so high that the main thieves were forced to prove that the Chaplin coffin was at their disposal; They sent a picture of the coffin next to a pit on the corn farm to the Chaplin family.

In doing so, the first clue was taken by local police who worked on the case around the clock. «They Chaplin, the wife of Chaplin, pretended to agree with the ransom and that the family lawyer made several phone calls to the thieves, apparently to negotiate and reduce ransom. The police took control of the Chaplin family, thereby tracking the site of calls. The grave thieves used a different public phone booth in the Lausanne area each time, which led to the monitoring of about 2 phone booths. Finally, on May 5, the police managed to arrest two men exactly seven days after the body was stolen.

But the thieves stupidly place the exact location of the coffin on a farm outside Noville They didn't remember. The police had to use metal detectors, and finally, thanks to the coffin metal handles, she found Chaplin residues. This scene is really reminiscent of a sequence of a movie …

Subsequently, Charlie Chaplin's body was buried properly for the second time, though this time they were enclosed in two meters of concrete and put a concrete layer on the grave to ensure its security. This strange story, which may have been welcomed by Chaplin himself, was immortalized in the cinema: BoaThe French director told the story in the film “La Rançon de la Gloire” released in Year 2.

In this movie, which played with Bonoa PolordGrowth Zam And Kiara Mastroian Built, Chaplin's daughter is partly with the thieves and treats them with generosity and forgiveness. Thieves. Finally on charges Hattak They were sentenced to dignity and extortion, the main person was four and a half years in prison, and the other was a six -month suspension.