An order issued last week to seize
an ancient Greek statue for years disputed by Italy and the
Getty Museum in Malibu is "immediately executive", prosecutors
said Thursday.
"The Lysippus statue must return to Italy", they told ANSA.
"We expect politicians to play their part," the prosecutors
said.
The figure has been contested ever since the Getty
bought it for almost four million dollars in 1977 - almost
800 times the $5,600 the fishermen sold it to Italian
dealers for in 1964.
Entitled The Getty Bronze (Statue of a Victorious
Youth), the statue is one of the best-known works in the Los
Angeles-based museum.
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