I can't activate my iphone 5 after deleting its data on Find My Phone?

I lost my phone yesterday at the gym, someone found it but they didn't return it, so I came home and tracked my phone on the Find My Phone app, sent messages and I called the phone but the person did not reply, however, I deleted all its data clicking on the Erase Phone button and I sent a last message saying the Iphone was blocked and there was no way of them using it so they should return it.
This morning my gym called saying someone had returned it, the thing is, I can't activate seem to activate my iphone. The Message I sent from the app still shows on the screen and when I unlock it, it tells me to activate my iphone with itunes or wifi. When I try to activate it by wifi it says there's a technical problem and when I connect it to itunes it says the SIM card is locked and I have to unlock it, except that when I turn my iphone on it doesn't tell me to unlock my SIM card, it only tells me to activate my iphone so I don't know what to do really.
Thank you for your time and help.

Activating after a Find My iPhone lock bricks the device if you don't know the password used by Find My iPhone.
Read through this article to find if your device has an activation lock.
http://www.macworld.com/article/2048739/get-to-know-ios-7-activation-lock.html
If this is what you have - the news is bad:
http://www.cultofmac.com/246755/why-ios-7s-activation-lock-is-a-disaster-waiting -to-happen/

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