Judge the return!"Zhang Gong's ancestor" sitting in the second instance of the Buddha statue to maintain the original judgment

On the morning of July 19, 2022, the Fujian Provincial Higher People's Court followed the law to the appellant OSCAR VAN OVEREEM (transliteration: Oscar Van Owrem, hereinafter referred to as "Oscar"). Committee, Dongpu Villagers Committee of Wushan Township, Oduta Prefecture, and the defendant Design & Consultation B.V. ) The second trial of property protection disputes was made public judgment, and the judgment of the first instance of the Sanming Intermediate People's Court on the Sanming Intermediate People's Court on the Oscar should return to the Gongzu master's body Buddha statue.

The court of the second instance found that the "Zhang Gongzu Master Sitting Buddha Statue" was originally dedicated to the "Zhang Gongzu Patriarch Sitting Buddha Statue", which was originally dedicated to the "Patriarch of the Person of the Person in the Song Dynasty". On December 14, 1995, the Buddha statue was stolen. Oscar advocated that in 1996, he bought the Buddha statue involved in the case in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, but did not provide the corresponding transaction voucher for the source of the Buddha statue. In March 2015, the Buddha statue was allowed to exhibition at the Hungarian Natural Science Museum at the Hungarian Natural Science Museum after being stolen for nearly 20 years.

The court of the second instance believes that the ancestor of Zhang Gong, the ancestor of the litigation dispute, is like theft of cultural relics that belong to illegal exports, with multiple attributes such as human remains, historical relics, and worship believers. The belief has special emotions with the local villagers.

The agents of the parties went to court to participate in the sentence. Some people's congresses, members of the CPPCC, media reporters, and villagers' representatives listened to the verdict.

Sichuan Observation (Source: CCTV News)

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