So i have a lost IPHONE, what now?

Hi guys, i know what you all are thinking right now but this is not the case. This is my question:
Last year I found an IPHONE 5 in the street, by that time my own phone was giving me troubles and not working fine (ty sony), i had no chance of buying a new IPHONE 5 (I already owned a previous 3GS and i loved it). I saw the phone there and at first I was like "jackpot" but then i remembered how much it costed me to buy my previous 3GS so I did the right thing, i took it and gave it back to the police department in the same day.
To my surprise they called me yesterday and said that i was free to collect the iphone 5 because a year passed and no one reclaimed it and by law if i wanted so the iphone now LEGALLY belonged to me (i'm portuguese, in portugal if you find something and give it back to police after 1 year if no one reclaims it is yours).
Of course i said yes and i went to collect it, i connected the phone to itunes but it seems it is icloud locked.
What can i do to revert this? btw i can not stress enough this point, i did what was right, found an iphone 5 delivered it to the police and after one year the police gave it back to me i have the papers of the police department stating it.
Thanks in advance,
Pedro.

The iPhone is locked to the original owner's Apple id
Read this
Find My iPhone Activation Lock - Apple Support
Without the co-operation of thae original owner ( unlikely in the circumstances ) you do not have an iPhone 5 you have an iBrick
there is no way of breaking the activation lock on that iPhone ever
Sorry for the bad news

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