Filmmakers disturbed 852 victims' "grave site”

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One of the 20th century's biggest maritime tragedies, the Estonia sunk in 1994, killing 852 people.

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Sweden, Estonia, and Finland decided not to salvage the wreck and made it unlawful to touch it in 1995.

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unlawful However, the court found that they were immune to prosecution since their ship

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was flying the flag of Germany and they were in international seas at the time

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Germany is the only major industrialised country that has not joined the-deal that was reached in 1995.

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Although the filmmaker are Swedish, an appeals court in

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Gothenburg ruled that "Estonia Law" did apply and remanded the case for a new trial.

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The lower court, according to Judge Goran Lundahl's Monday ruling,

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"took into consideration that the wreck represents a cemetery site

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