What’s the going rate for a dead automotive titan?
Italian police have foiled a plot to steal Enzo Ferrari’s body, according to a bizarre Reuters report. Apparently the would-be culprits’ foolproof, not at all grappa-inspired plan was to pilfer the body from an above-ground tomb in a cemetery not far from the Ferrari factory in Maranello, then hold it for ransom for some unspecified amount of money, which is totally a thing successful criminals do.
The whole thing came to light after a big raid on a drug and weapons-trafficking operation in Sardinia. What’s strange, at least at first, is that Sardinia — an island in the Mediterranean — is nowhere near Enzo’s tomb at a cemetery in Modena, which is in northern central Italy.
However, an article in La Repubblica (read a translated version here) suggests the would-be body snatchers were heavily involved in drug and weapons-trafficking operations; the contraband came in through Sardinia and was moved to associates on the mainland. And when you’re already running drugs and guns, what’s a body or two?