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According to French police, a sculpture by the late singer and poet Jim Morrison who disappeared from his grave in Paris in Paris.
“After 37 years of absence, the bust of Jim Morrison, stolen in 1988 in the Père Lachaise cemetery, was found,” the management of the Paris regional judicial police wrote on Friday in an Instagram post.
He added that “this emblematic symbol for the singer’s fans was recovered” during an investigation by the financial and anti-corruption brigade, under the authority of the Paris prosecutor’s office.
“It was a fortuitous discovery made during a search ordered by a magistrate examining at the Court of Paris,” the prosecutor’s office said on Tuesday.
Jeff Jampol, Director of Domaine Jim Morrison, said on Tuesday in a statement that they were “happy to hear” the rediscovery of the statue, adding: “Obviously, it is a piece of history, and a family of Jim wanted there on his grave, so it is rewarding to see that he was recovered.”
“Now we will have to see in what form is the bust,” he continued.
Morrison, the charismatic charismatic of the psychedelic rock group of the 1960s, The Doors, died in 1971, at only 27 years old.
His grave into the French capital attracts many music fans.
Resting in the Père Lachaise cemetery, it is one of the most popular tombs in Paris, according to the city’s official tourism website of the city, with crowds that come together on the birthday of his death on July 3 of each year.
The bust, created by the Croatian sculptor Mladen Mikulin, was installed on his tombstone on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of his death, according to the official website of the city of Paris. However, he disappeared in 1988.
The tombstone of the tomb, which was damaged in the 1980s, was replaced by his parents in 1990 by the epitaph “faithful to his mind” written in Greek.
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Morrison’s death in 1991, the police had to disperse fans of the cemetery with tear gas due to unruly behavior.
On the occasion of the 30th anniversary, alcohol and music had been prohibited, but thousands of people have always gone to his plot to put crowns and take photos.
“Every day, somewhere in the world, a song of doors is played,” said the former keyboarder of the doors Ray Manzarek at the time. “The energy of Jim Morrison is always with us, in the ether.”
Morrison, who was also known as “The Lizard King”, developed a reputation for his heavy alcohol consumption and shocking antics on stage.
Morrison left the group in 1971 to focus on writing poetry and he moved to Paris with his girlfriend, Pamela Courson.
However, he died in their Paris apartment later that year.
Courson told the authorities that she had found the singer who died in the bathtub.
Its cause of death is officially recorded as heart failure, but no autopsy has been carried out, which has aroused conspiracy theories.
