A young Polish refugee told a Swiss court yesterday that he dug up Charlie Chaplin’s body and tried to sell it to the comedian’s family because he was in financial trouble.
Roman Wardas, a 24-year-old car mechanic, said he was out of work, and going through hard times when he read a newspaper report about a similar case in Italy. “As a result I decided to hide Charlie Chaplin’s body and solve my problems,” Wardas told Vevey District Court at the start of his trial.
Together with 38-year-old Gantscho Ganev, a Bulgarian, Wardas is accused of desecrating Chaplin’s tomb in a village graveyard and attempting to extort $600,000 from the Chaplin family.
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