Amsterdam District Court is considering the case of the Scythian gold of Crimea
After consulting with lawyers, it was decided to leave all the Crimean exhibits in temporary storage in the Netherlands, which is currently being disputed by several parties. First, a lawsuit was filed against four Crimean museums, but in January, the states of Ukraine and the Netherlands joined the process.
The lawyer of the Crimean museums, Mihil van Leeuwen, said that the process of returning artifacts could take a long time, however, in his opinion, “culturally and historically, the exhibits belong to the Crimea, they were found there, and the fact that“ Crimea annexed by Russia does not change anything. ”
A similar point of view was expressed by the scientific curator of the exhibition, the Crimean archeologist Valentina Mordvintseva.
“The exhibits must return to the Crimea, regardless of which state they now legally belong to. Some of the exhibits were excavated in the XIX century, and all this time they were in the Crimea, despite various political circumstances, ”she said. "InoSMI".
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