Justice acquits the previous councilor Lluís Puig within the case of Sijena’s property | News from Catalonia | EUROtoday

The Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) has acquitted this Wednesday to the previous Minister of Culture throughout the October 1 referendum and present deputy of Junts within the Parliament, Lluís Puig. The Court has dominated out that Puig dedicated a criminal offense of disobedience by not returning the property of Sijena, which have been in Catalonia.

The Prosecutor’s Office requested for 2 years of disqualification for a criminal offense of disobedience, contemplating a “clear breach” of the order of a courtroom of Huesca to return to the monastery of Sijena (Huesca) 44 works that have been within the Lleida Museum. For the courtroom, within the trial in opposition to Puig, ample proof has been offered that the previous councilor, who was tried in absence as a result of he’s fled in Belgium, incurred a adverse “persistent repeated” to the courtroom order and that he maintained a “rebel will” earlier than the choose’s mandate.

Declarations equivalent to the previous director of archives, libraries, museums and heritage of Catalonia, Jusèp Boya, revealed that neither Puig nor Santi Vila, his predecessor, confirmed intentions to disobey. “Simply the former counselors wanted to act according to Catalan legislation, since the Consortium of the Lleida Museum is attached to the Generalitat,” they mentioned.

The then spokesman for Cultural Entities of Lleida, Xavier Quinquillà, mentioned that from the group, similar to Vila, they defended the unity of the museum’s assortment, not solely that of Lleida, additionally of the MNAC, the place the litigation is positioned. “It’s about following technical and preservation criteria. I had a meeting with Vila in which we claim that unit, ”mentioned Quinquillà.

The possession of the works by a 3rd get together, on this case the consortium of the Museum of Lleida, didn’t enable, based on the authorized companies advisor of the Ministry of Culture, the achievement of the sentence. In the phrases of the witness, when the consortium was conscious of the decision, he requested the Justice of the Peace to seem as an get together, request that the choose of Huesca denied.