Romania refuses to return the property stolen from them to its rightful owners, and the impossibility of the restitution process is a classified case of theft and its elevation to the status of state politics - the Transylvanian Hungarian Association reacted to yesterday's decision, according to which the Supreme Court rejected the final decision of the former Marianum Catholic Girls' Education Institute in Cluj-Napoca restitution.
"In line with the previous position of the parish of St. Michael in Cluj, as leaders of the Transylvanian Hungarian Association, we believe that the nationalization of Marianum and the impossibility of its return are incompatible with the principles of the rule of law. The judgment handed down by the Supreme Court also proves the double standard applied in the ranks of the Romanian judiciary - which has a serious and clear anti-Hungarian color - against which we are obliged to speak out at every opportunity, and about which we also inform international forums," they added.
They emphasized: "the situation of the Marianum is particularly symbolic, since after the nationalization in 1948, the Hungarian-language Bolyai University operated in its building, which was abolished by the extreme anti-Hungarian dictatorship in 1959. Thus, not only the fatal blow to the case of the independent Hungarian university can remain with the Romanian state administration, but also with the wrongful owner of the building complex."
According to the organization, "the Hungarian representation in Bucharest could be an obvious solution in the complicated situation. We urge: the Hungarian decision-makers close to power to achieve that the Marianum (also) is returned to its rightful owner, the Roman Catholic Church!"
Source: erdely.ma
(Cover photo: MTI/Gábor Kiss)
