Key legal question
Whether the continued criminal seizure of the two sarcophagi remained justified by suspicion of confiscation or restitution.
Extracted holding
The seizure remained justified because the indications of unlawful provenance had strengthened and possible confiscation or restitution still had to be safeguarded.
Extracted reasoning
Under Art. 263 CPP, seizure is based on prima facie probability. The Lebanese authorities' letters suggested the objects may have been stolen or illegally exported and a formal restitution request was imminent, so the conditions for seizure were still met.