Stumfova added that she would continue the legal dispute. The Supreme Court upheld the previous verdicts of lower-level courts that turned down the noble family heirs' restitution claims.
It also confirmed that the heirs cannot claim the property return by lodging a Tens of neo-Nazis gathering in Prague ...
Most Czechs say Benes decrees should continue to be valid - poll ... suit to determine ownership. The extensive property was confiscated from the German noble family before the communist coup in February 1948 on the basis of the post-war decrees issued by then Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes. "We will use all legal possibilities, including a complaint with the European Court," Stumpfova said. The Schaumburg-Lippe descendants have led disputes concerning extensive property, including the chateaux in Nachod and Ratiborice, with the Czech Republic for many years. Stumpfova insists that the post-war confiscation of the property of Bedrich Schaumburg-Lippe, who died in 1945, was not made in accordance with law. The latest court verdict refers to the previous decision by the Czech Constitutional Court, saying the property the state confiscated before February 25, 1948 can be claimed back only under the restitution law. The Benes decrees provided for the confiscation of the property of collaborators, traitors, ethnic Germans and Hungarians, except for those who themselves suffered under the Nazis. They also formed a basis for the transfer of the former groups from Czechoslovakia.
(Ceske Noviny)
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