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The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday ruled in favour of Italy's long-standing demand that the Getty Villa Museum in the United States return an ancient Greek statue which Rome claims was smuggled out of the country decades ago. It was made by Greek sculptor Lysippos between 300 and 100 BC and discovered in 1964 by a fisherman in the Adriatic Sea, off the central Italian town of Pedaso. After being sold several times, it was bought in 1977 in Munich by the Getty Trust for $3.95 million.

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Lifesize Victorious Youth is at centre of a years-long dispute, with Italy claiming it was illegally bought by US trust

The Getty Trust in the US must return to Italy one of the most prized pieces in its collection, an ancient Greek bronze of a young man, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled.

A European court on Thursday upheld Italy’s right to seize a prized Greek statue from the J. Paul Getty Museum in California, ruling that Italy was right to try to reclaim an important part of its cultural heritage and rejecting the museum's appeal.