Criminals Planned to Steal and Hold Enzo Ferrari's Corpse for Ransom
Italian investigators said on Tuesday that they had prevented a criminal plot to steal the body of automotive legend and Formula One racing pioneer Enzo Ferrari. The scheme involved using two cars and a van, breaking into San Cataldo cemetery, absconding with the corpse, and then holding it for ransom.
Just imagine the incredible movie that would have resulted from the heist had the police not immediately foiled the plan. It would have equal parts The Italian Job and Weekend at Bernie’s.
Così buono.
According to Reuters, authorities discovered the plan during a series of investigations relating to arms and drug trafficking across Italy. Hundreds of military and police personnel conducted a string of raids, including some conducted by parachute, resulting in the arrest of dozens of mafia suspects in Sardinia, Lombardy, Tuscany, Veneto, and Emilia-Romagna in the process.
Several members of the group had apparently been plotting to swipe Ferrari’s body in the near future. One had even done some preliminary scout work at the gravesite. After acquiring the coffin, the crew intended to hide in the Apennine Mountains while demanding a ransom from the Ferrari family or company.
Thanks to swift action from the Italian military, Enzo’s body remains unmolested in an above-ground tomb in Modena, just sixteen miles from the Ferrari plant at Maranello. He died on August 14th, 1988 at the ripe old age of 90.
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"What have you got in the garage?" "Oh, just an old dead Ferrari."
If scheme had happened, there would be no ransom. What would happen is finding Enzo's body, abandoned by side of the road, in the broke-down Fiat getaway van.
I want those shades.
If they didn't get a ransom, the grave robbers were plotting to turn Enzio into a zombie and make him build counterfeit Ferraris.