The Bákó District Court annulled the March 2019 decision of the municipal council of the city of Darmanesti, which declared the Úzvölgy military cemetery a public property of the city.
The summary of the judgment was published on the portal of Romanian courts. The district court announced that it considered the appeal of the city of Darmanesti and the city council to be unfounded and rejected the first-instance judgment invalidating the municipal decision. According to the post, the current decision is final.
In the trial, Csíkszentmárton was represented by the lawyer of the Mikó Imre Legal Advocacy Service. The adoption of the local government decision that was invalidated yesterday was the first in a series of steps by which the Bákó county town started the transformation of the military cemetery.
On the basis of the now invalidated decision, he also issued himself a building permit, with which he created a Romanian plot and built a monument in the cemetery.
The municipality of Csíkszentmárton also challenged the building permit at the Bákó County Court, but the trial of that case was suspended in June 2020 until a final verdict is reached in the ownership dispute.
Sándor Birtalan, the mayor of Csíkszentmárton, told MTI: they always knew they were right, and they trusted that they would be found out in court. He added: The people of Csíkszentmárton have done a lot in recent decades to preserve the memory of the soldiers who fell in Úzvölgy.
Previously, the municipality of Darmanesti also filed a lawsuit against Csíkszentmárton, requesting the annulment of the municipal decision in which the Székelyföld municipality declared the military cemetery public property. This lawsuit was legally lost by the Moldovan municipality last October.
In March 2019, the municipality of Darmanesti declared the Úzvölgy military cemetery as its own public property, and in April arbitrarily created a Romanian plot in the cemetery of the depopulated Úzvölgye settlement on the border of Hargita and Bákó counties. Previously, the cemetery was cared for by the village of Csíkszentmárton in Székelyföld, and the Hungarian community considered it a Hungarian military cemetery.
On June 6, 2019, thousands of Romanian commemorators forced their way into the cemetery to take part in the Romanian Orthodox dedication of the Romanian plot and monument, after Szeklers tried to prevent it with a live chain.
A week after the violent acts, the competent Romanian authority clarified that the 149 Romanian soldiers whose names were read out were not buried in the Úzvölgy military cemetery, whose names were also part of the ceremony after the violent occupation of the cemetery.
The nationalist cemetery occupiers - several of whom were elected parliamentarians and senators in the colors of the Association for the Unification of Romanians (AUR) - have since organized several wreath-layings in the cemetery in honor of those Romanian soldiers who, according to the official Romanian position, are not even buried there.
Source: MTI/Felvidek.ma
Image: Nándor Veres
