Of the frantic of the first steps after the judgment of the Supreme Court For the return of the mural paintings of the monastery of Sijena, the litigation seems to have dropped revolutions, not because of the volume of requests on both sides of the strip, but by the development of the judicial deadlines. The Generalitat of Catalonia left in the hands of the MNAC Board of Trustees the execution of the sentence with several days of waiting that, now, after this Monday they come to confirm that the judicial mandate will not be executed in the 20 business days marked by the law (until the Government of Aragon itself he questioned it in the beginning), while the forced route wins.
The meeting of the Board of Trustees of the National Museum of Art of Catalonia, composed of the Generalitat, the Ministry of Culture and the Barcelona City Council, has revealed two issues that for the Aragonese lawyer of the case, Jorge Español, are opposed: the “will to comply with the judicial resolutions” and the “technical disability” alleged by the MNAC staff to make the transfer to the Cenobio.
“It’s something … A surrealist puzzle. You can’t comply and not comply with the sentence,” he values Spanish in response to Aragon Digital. The lawyer explains to this newspaper that the judge already dismissed the “incidence of execution” of the sentence for the reasons exposed again by the Board of Trustees and therefore remains the possible allegations, without ruling out the appeal for protection to the Constitutional Court that has not been mentioned in the statement after the meeting.
In his opinion, the MNAC could incur a crime of disobedience. “The sentence has already pronounced and it is shown that all that (what they claim) is not true,” he insists.
Jorge Español points out that the presence of “independence” in the Board of Trustees of the MNAC has been able to lead to more noise around the return of the paintings. There is no institutional presence of Junts, although ERC, contrary to the transfer, is part of the Barcelona town hall and facilitated the investiture as president of Salvador Illa.
The deadline for forced execution
The lawyer speaks openly about the possibility of the forced execution that the spokeswoman, Mar Vaquero, already brought out to reach this scenario, we will have to wait for the 20 business days established by the Supreme Court. To this is added the request of the Board of Trustees so that the Aragon Government participates in the “technical” working group that will resolve the next steps. Leaving more than patent his skepticism, Jorge Español describes what happened on Monday as “a tease of hair.”
“What I want is not to deceive us. We are going to study what they propose exactly but we are not going to let us tease. That is why we will demand a schedule to verify that the will of the Catalan administrations is that the paintings arrive as soon as possible to Aragon.” Thus, the president of the Government of Aragon has shown himself, Jorge Azcón, before the decision of the Board of Trustees of MNAC.
Greetings between Illa and Azcón two weeks ago in Barcelona. Photo: Fabián Simón (DGA)
Azcón: “You have to get to work”
Azcón has expressed that “technically it is possible to transfer the wall paintings of Sijena but you have to get to work.” “We already knew that I would have technical difficulties but I still trust that both the Generalitat and the Barcelona City Council and the Ministry of Culture will not try to delay or delay the entire process so that the paintings come to Aragon,” he added.
The three administrations mentioned by Azcon are part of the MNAC Board of Trustees, the same body that has urged Aragon to collaborate for the transfer. The head of the Aragonese Executive has collected the glove of the collaboration proposal: “We are going to see what they propose exactly because what we want is not to deceive us. If they say that we must form a work group that is one that from the first moment is clear that a sentence must be fulfilled with the maximum respect for the Sijena paintings but in the lowest time of time. We do not want this to be extended indefinitely.”
In statements the media has assured that “if there is a technically credible procedure so that the paintings can come, there will be any necessary collaboration.” “There will not be if what we see is that they are trying to make political decisions when they have to be only technical and legal, because a sentence must be met. You have to pay attention to the technicians who show that the paintings can be transferred, not without difficulty, but that they can be transferred doing the job well,” he concluded.
