The court of first instance number 70 of Madrid has granted the State the ownership of 559 assets of the Pazo de Meirás (Sada, A Coruña) that the heirs of the dictator claimed Francisco Franco.
A ruling of November 7 fully upholds the demand of the General State Attorney’s Officewith the support of the Sada City Council and the Xunta de Galicia, which claimed two assets for National Heritage, 409 for the Spanish Documentary Heritage and 148 for Spanish Historical Heritage.
It establishes, therefore, that all these assets belong to the stateimposes the payment of the procedural costs on the heirs of Francisco Franco and opens a period of twenty days to file an appeal, which would resolve the Provincial Court of Madrid.
According to the ruling, part of these assets are linked to the figure of the writer Emilia Pardo Bazan –previous owner of the Pazo de Meirás– and came into the hands of the dictator’s family in 1938, when the building changed owners.
Others entered the Pazo de Meirás between 1938 and 1975 when the property had public use as a summer residence of the then head of state.
Therefore, the ruling agrees with the plaintiffs, who maintained that “the personal property that existed within it during that temporary period were affected by the aforementioned public service”, in addition to defending that this does not prescribe.
The initial claim included five more assets than Spanish Historical Heritagealthough in the oral trial itself the State renounced them, since it is a series of paintings that “after a stylistic analysis, do not fit with the requirements that must be met to attribute that historical value to them, and this regardless of whether were included before or after 1975”.
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