He Court of First Instance number 70 of Madrid has fully upheld the claim filed by the General Administration of the State, which was joined by the Xunta and the City Council of Sada, for the ownership of assets of the Pazo de Meirás that the Francos claimed.
The ruling, against which there is an appeal, statesin a 90-page sentencethat “at no time is it proven that the State made a declaration of recognition of the ownership of these specific assets in favor of the defendants,” it reads.
“The position maintained by the State in the provisional execution followed before the Court of First Instance of A Coruña did not entail the performance of acts from which the aforementioned recognition of ownership could be deduced in relation to the assets that are the subject of this process,” he explains.
“For all this, and based on the legal reasoning carried out throughout this resolution, the claim filed must be fully estimatedconsequently having to make the declarations of ownership that are intended therein”.
Previously, this Court had already agreed that the assets that remained in the Pazo de Meirás and that the State claimed would remain there. in escrow until the lawsuit was over.
564 goods
It thus favorably resolved the precautionary measure requested by the General State Administration and the National Heritage Administration Council and decreed that the assets identified in the lawsuit, including those that belonged to the writer Emilia Pardo Bazán, remained in custody in state custody.
The State had filed a lawsuit against the Franco family in which it claimed ownership of 564 assets of the Pazo de Meirás. I did it after The Francos requested the Court of First Instance number 1 of A Coruña to withdraw all the assets deposited in the property that were not claimed by the State at the time.
Specifically, the State Attorney’s Office will present a lawsuit before the courts of Madrid against the heirs of the dictator claiming ownership of a large part of the movable property found within the manor.
Sada Town Hall
There were a total of 564 personal property or documents and files that can be grouped into three categories: National Heritage assets; assets of the Spanish Documentary Heritage and assets that are in the public domain due to its impact on the use of the Pazo de Meirás as the official residence of the head of state.
“And that, in addition, they are part of the Spanish historical heritage due to their historical and also artistic interest, linked, on the one hand, to the figure of the writer Emilia Pardo Bazán, and on the other, to the official activity carried out during the Franco dictatorship,” the State argued.
After the ruling, the Sada City Council, where the Pazo de Meirás is located, has shown its satisfaction “in verifying that Justice continues to agree with us in the work we have been doing to guarantee public ownership” of the Pazo de Meirás. From Sada they have always defended that the Pazo is a public asset and everything it keeps is patrimony of the citizens, not of the heirs of the dictator.
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