The Franco family has lost its legal battle against the State for ownership of the assets that the dictator’s family has accumulated over decades inside the Pazo de Meirás. The ruling, handed down by a court in Madrid and which can be appealed, upholds “in full” the lawsuit filed by the General Administration of the State and National Heritage, which was joined by the Xunta de Galicia and the City Council of Sada. The ruling handed down on November 7 stops short the claims of the dictator’s family to take possession of the treasures that the Pazo de Meirás kept inside and that the plaintiff administrations considered as a collection of objects of varied characteristics accumulated over the years. decades as a result of looting.
This is a list of 564 objects that the Franco family intended to keep in their possession and that now Judge Roberto Fernández Muñoz returns to the public treasury. The decision adds to the historic ruling of September 2020 that forced the dictator’s relatives to return the manor that they occupied for decades as a regular vacation spot in the A Coruña town of Sada. After that first sentence, the dictator’s family began another battle to recover everything that lived inside and part of the gardens of the property. It is a diverse list of paintings, books, sculptures and objects of all kinds, many of which already lived in Meirás when its tenant was the writer Emilia Pardo Bazán.
The ruling explains in 89 pages the reasons why each of the reasons of Franco’s heirs to claim their right to the assets in dispute is rejected. A court in A Coruña already prohibited them from taking anything from the property in July 2022, as seemed to be the initial intention of the dictator’s heirs.
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