diff --git a/src-ui/src/app/components/search/search.component.html b/src-ui/src/app/components/search/search.component.html
index 547c8a475..ae0ec8e3e 100644
--- a/src-ui/src/app/components/search/search.component.html
+++ b/src-ui/src/app/components/search/search.component.html
@@ -16,11 +16,13 @@
 
 <div *ngIf="!errorMessage" [class.result-content-searching]="searching" infiniteScroll (scrolled)="onScroll()">
     <p i18n>{resultCount, plural, =0 {No results} =1 {One result} other {{{resultCount}} results}}</p>
-    <app-document-card-large *ngFor="let result of results"
-        [document]="result.document"
-        [details]="result.highlights"
-        [searchScore]="result.score / maxScore"
-        [moreLikeThis]="true">
+    <ng-container *ngFor="let result of results">
+        <app-document-card-large *ngIf="result.document"
+            [document]="result.document"
+            [details]="result.highlights"
+            [searchScore]="result.score / maxScore"
+            [moreLikeThis]="true">
+        </app-document-card-large>
+    </ng-container>
 
-</app-document-card-large>
 </div>
diff --git a/src-ui/src/app/services/rest/search.service.ts b/src-ui/src/app/services/rest/search.service.ts
index 3799f3dc7..e750100fa 100644
--- a/src-ui/src/app/services/rest/search.service.ts
+++ b/src-ui/src/app/services/rest/search.service.ts
@@ -28,7 +28,11 @@ export class SearchService {
     }
     return this.http.get<SearchResult>(`${environment.apiBaseUrl}search/`, {params: httpParams}).pipe(
       map(result => {
-        result.results.forEach(hit => this.documentService.addObservablesToDocument(hit.document))
+        result.results.forEach(hit => {
+          if (hit.document) {
+            this.documentService.addObservablesToDocument(hit.document)
+          }
+        })
         return result
       })
     )
diff --git a/src/documents/views.py b/src/documents/views.py
index ab4486821..eb9078f75 100755
--- a/src/documents/views.py
+++ b/src/documents/views.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import logging
 import os
 import tempfile
 from datetime import datetime
@@ -458,12 +459,21 @@ class SearchView(APIView):
         self.ix = index.open_index()
 
     def add_infos_to_hit(self, r):
-        doc = Document.objects.get(id=r['id'])
+        try:
+            doc = Document.objects.get(id=r['id'])
+        except Document.DoesNotExist:
+            logging.getLogger(__name__).warning(
+                f"Search index returned a non-existing document: "
+                f"id: {r['id']}, title: {r['title']}. "
+                f"Search index needs reindex."
+            )
+            doc = None
+
         return {'id': r['id'],
-                'highlights': r.highlights("content", text=doc.content),
+                'highlights': r.highlights("content", text=doc.content) if doc else None,  # NOQA: E501
                 'score': r.score,
                 'rank': r.rank,
-                'document': DocumentSerializer(doc).data,
+                'document': DocumentSerializer(doc).data if doc else None,
                 'title': r['title']
                 }