Jim Morrison bust stolen 37 years ago found by chance
The sculpture by Croatian artist Mladen Mikulin was in the home of a businessman under investigation for fraud.
BarcelonaThirty-seven years ago, someone stole the bust of singer Jim Morrison from the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris. On Monday, the police found it without even looking for it. The Paris Police Headquarters announced this on social media. The sculpture, the work of Croatian artist Mladen Mikulin, was discovered during a search by the Paris Police's Financial and Anti-Corruption Brigade. It was in the home of a company executive under investigation for falsifying accounting documents.
Morrison, singer and frontman of The Doors, died in Paris in 1971. He was just 27 years old and was found by his girlfriend, Pamela Courson, in the bathtub of his apartment in the Marais district. Morrison was one of the greats of the rock scene, leading a group that produced classics such as Light my fire, The end and Riders on the stormMore than fifty years after his death, his grave remains a site of pilgrimage. French police have been monitoring the tomb for years because it has periodically become a drug dealing point.
The bust was placed on Morrison's grave in 1981 to commemorate the tenth anniversary of his death, and seven years later, someone removed it. The sculpture has some damage: the nose is broken and it is covered in graffiti. At the moment, the French authorities have not clarified whether it will be returned to its original location.
