Based on the Beneš decrees, which set the Hungarian population as collective criminals and are still in force today, the Slovak state wants to acquire a large piece of land.
Újszó reported .
The Hungarian owners are still fighting for their land in court. On October 13, Bratislava District Court No. 2 rejected the claim filed by the Slovak Land Fund, in which the fund claimed that some extremely valuable real estate in the administrative area of the Bratislava Bishopric belonging to the capital belongs to the state against the individuals who inherited it.
The land fund argued that
the heirs' ancestors were Hungarian, so their agricultural property should have been confiscated after the Second World War.
The report reveals that the land in question is worth roughly one and a half million euros today, as it is located under the D4 highway bypassing Bratislava. The decision of the first-instance court is not final, the land fund can submit a legal remedy request. However, the new director of the fund, Ján Marosz, has not yet decided whether to appeal. According to him, during the previous management of the institution, certain interest groups used the decrees as a reference to assert their interests.
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