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		</div><p>Forensic experts have opened Salvador Dali&#8217;s coffin to obtain DNA samples that could help settle a paternity lawsuit, a court spokeswoman said.</p>
<p>The coffin was opened half an hour after it was lifted from the crypt in Figueres where Dali&#8217;s remains have been for the past 27 years, the official with the court administration in Catalonia, Spain, said in a statement.</p>
<p>A committee of judges and technicians immediately started work to obtain biological samples that could shed light on whether a 61-year-old tarot card reader, Pilar Abel, is, as she claims, Dali&#8217;s daughter.</p>
<p>Only five people are handling this part of the process, the official said, in order to reduce the risk of contaminating the DNA samples.</p>
<p>Pilar Abel says her mother had an affair with Dali while working as a domestic helper in the north-eastern town of Figueres. A judge granted the exhumation last month to conduct a DNA test.</p>
<p>Four people carrying a coffin entered the Dali Theatre Museum on Thursday, one hour after doors closed to visitors.</p>
<p>Technicians installed a pulley system on scaffolding in order to lift a 1.5-ton stone slab that covered the crypt where the painter&#8217;s embalmed body was interred.</p>
<p>A marquee was also installed under the museum&#8217;s glass dome to prevent any photography or video of the process, even from drones.</p>
<p>Abel said a desire to honour her mother&#8217;s memory, and not money, was motivating her paternity lawsuit.</p>
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