WWII Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's blood and brain went on sale on Friday for $22 000 on online auction website eBay, before the company pulled the ad posted by an anonymous seller.

"No bid was made during the brief time the advert was visible," eBay said on its website, explaining the removal on the grounds that the company did not authorise sales of human matter.

"It's a disgrace trying to sell my grandfather's brain and blood," said Alessandra Mussolini, the neo-fascist grand-daughter of Il Duce told Sky TG24 television.

She said that the remains of her grand-father, who was shot and then hanged by partisans at the end of World War II, were normally kept in a Milan hospital. The television station said the hospital denied the claim.

AFP

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