Italy can reclaim 2,000-year-old Greek statue from Getty Museum, ECHR rules
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Cool. Now do the British Museum.
Nah, you have to steal stuff back, take the stone of destiny for example.
The plan for stealing the Stone of Scone was hatched where all good plans come about: a pub.
Interesting.... So do countries of origin suddenly have a claim on artifacts that were plundered and shipped to foreign countries? Asking for a friend.
In this case it was found in the 60s in Italian waters by a fisherman and illegally sold on the black market while a law enacted in the 40s stated that all cultural treasures found under ground or under water belong to the government, with up a 25% reward to the finder
Not the usual "we stole it 200 years ago during imperialism so it's legitimately ours now"
Every case is unique in one way or another.
The irony here is that the statue isn't even Italian, is Greek. It was just found in Italy.
I don't think so. We're still looking at it.
Hopefully from Italy it finds its way to its rightful place in Greece.
Seriously, how is that not the answer to all this. This world is batshit crazy.
It was lost in a shipwreck 3000 years ago when Greece was ruling the Italian south, not stolen like the Acropolis in the British museum
Good luck. The Getty Museum being in California probably doesn't give a shit what a European court has to say
Seeing how they presented arguments in court, they seem to care a little bit
Aaahh! So that's where all the Getty Images come from!
So do you hire a repo man for that kind of thing?