Editing Body Worlds (section)

===France===
On Tuesday 21 April 2009, a French judge ruled concerning the [[Paris]] exhibition of ''Our Body: The Universe Within'', that exhibiting dead bodies for profit was a "violation of the respect owed to them". "Under the law, the proper place for corpses is in the cemetery", said Judge Louis-Marie Raingeard. Raingeard ordered the exhibition to close within 24 hours or face a fine of 20,000 euro (over 26,000 dollars) for each day it stayed open. The judge also ordered authorities to seize the 17 bodies on display and all of the organs on display from an unknown number of people for proper burial. Gunther von Hagens issued a press statement denying any connection between the closed Chinese exhibition and his ''Body Worlds'' franchise.<ref>[https://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=7411070 France Shuts Down Popular Bodies Show]&page=1</ref> Similar exhibitions had already been successfully staged in [[Lyon]] and [[Marseille]].