ay .The filing would be a final attempt by the government to seek a reversal to a 2019 ruling that the relic must be sold - a decision affirmed in a second judgment by the Supreme Court last December.
The more than 300kg, 2m-tall bird, which is gripping a Nazi swastika in its talons, adorned the stern of the Admiral Graf Spee, a battleship involved in one of the first naval skirmishes of World War II.The Graf Spee's captain, Hans Langsdorff, had scuttled the destroyer on December 17, 1939, following the Battle of the River Plate.
The salvage team had signed a deal with the Uruguayan navy establishing that 50 per cent of the sale of objects found in the search would become public property and the other 50 per cent would go to the search's backers. Since its discovery, the sculpture - seen as likely to fetch a handsome sum at auction - has been kept in a navy warehouse.
When the sale did not materialise, brother financiers Alfredo and Felipe Etchegaray and diver Hector Bado - who died in 2017 - sued the state of Uruguay for breach of contract.The artefact's potential sale has ruffled feathers in the German government, which fears the sculpture could be used to drum up Nazi support.
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