The Csíkszereda court rejected the appeal submitted in the case of the wooden crosses placed in the Úzvölgy military cemetery in July last year, in which the municipality of Csíkszentmárton and Hargita county requested the continuation of the prosecutor's investigation, Székelyhon.ro reported on Tuesday based on the court verdict .
According to the Székelyföld news portal, the verdict is final, so the people involved no longer have the legal opportunity to question the placing of the wooden crosses and the circumstances.
The municipality of Csíkszentmárton and Hargita counties, which takes care of the cemetery, turned to the court after the Csíkszereda prosecutor's office closed the criminal proceedings in April without a charge against the 150 wooden crosses erected without a permit by the Romanian nationalist Nemzet útja (Calea Neamului) association in the Úzvölgy military cemetery last year. launched. They asked the court in Csíkszereda to review the prosecution's findings and oblige it to continue the criminal proceedings.
In their ruling recently, the judges deemed the appeal unfounded and rejected it.
Following the complaint of the mayor of Csíkszentmárton, the chairman of the Hargita county council and other individuals, the prosecutor's office initiated several proceedings in connection with the cross-examination last July, but ultimately withdrew all of them.
The charges were: public incitement, incitement to hatred, violence and discrimination, incitement to vandalism, incitement to trespass, desecration of graves, carrying out works in the cemetery without a building permit.
The prosecution established that the facts in the first charge do not exist. Regarding the erection of the 150 wooden memorial crosses, it was determined that although there is a possibility that it was done without a permit, the act does not fall within the scope of criminal law, since " the cemetery does not have the status of a monument" .
The 150 smaller and one larger wooden cross were erected in the military cemetery last July by Romanian nationalists, after their first occupation of the space was deemed illegal by the Romanian justice system, which also ordered the removal of the placed symbols and structures.
The concrete crosses, monument and row of flags of the Romanian plot arbitrarily created in 2019 were removed from the cemetery of the depopulated Úzvölgye settlement, which administratively belongs to Csíkszentmárton, by dawn on June 29, 2023, after a final court ruling obliged the mayor's office of Dormánfalva (Dormanesti) in the neighboring Bákó county to do so.
Photo: Attila Pinti / szekelyhon.ro
In March 2019, the self-government of the Moldavian settlement declared the Úzvölgy military cemetery, which was previously cared for by Csíkszentmárton in Székelyföld, and was considered by the Hungarian community as a Hungarian military cemetery, to be its own public property.
On June 6, 2019, thousands of Romanian commemorators forced their way into the cemetery to take part in the Romanian Orthodox consecration 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 part of the ceremonies that were repeated regularly after the violent occupation of the cemetery.
MTI
