Exhumed body in Romania is ?Nicolae Ceausescu
DNA tests confirmed Romania's late communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was buried two decades ago in a Bucharest grave, forensic experts said on Wednesday, lifting lingering doubt over the ruler's burial place.
The family had threatened to sue the Romanian state if the remains – exhumed on July 21, some 20 years after their deaths – had not belonged to the Ceausescus.
Mr Dermengiu said in the case of Elena, there was not enough material available for a conclusive test.
The remains of the Ceausescus were exhumed in July following requests by their daughter Zoia, who died of lung cancer in 2006, her husband Mircea Oprean and Ceausescu's son Valentin....
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The family had threatened to sue the Romanian state if the remains – exhumed on July 21, some 20 years after their deaths – had not belonged to the Ceausescus.
Mr Dermengiu said in the case of Elena, there was not enough material available for a conclusive test.
The remains of the Ceausescus were exhumed in July following requests by their daughter Zoia, who died of lung cancer in 2006, her husband Mircea Oprean and Ceausescu's son Valentin....