Félix Biancamaria seized the real dish while fishing for sea urchins in the summer of 1986, in an idyllic cove north of Ajaccio. He is being prosecuted for “ receiving and detaining maritime cultural property ” and “ smuggling a national treasure ” He is accused of having plundered this national maritime heritage asset then tried to resell it, with the complicity of his old friend Jean-Michel Richaud, also on the dock.

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