The mayor of A Coruña, Ines Rey, has considered the sale of the Cornide House as an “attitude of contempt for the public and the law” on the part of the dictator’s family Francisco Franco.
This has been stated, to questions from journalists, in the visit he has made to the old arms factory and future headquarters of the City of Information and Communication Technologies, together with the head of the PSdeG list for A Coruña in the elections of July 12, Pablo Arangüena.
“The Cornide House it is a public heritage asset and this will be claimed by the A Coruña City Council “, the councilor stressed, underlining the work being carried out to declare the property as Asset of Cultural Interest (BIC). “And later for the recovery of the Casa Cornide for the heritage of the people of Coruña and Coruña”, he added.
Regarding the declaration as a Property of Cultural Interest, he stated that the “pertinent” procedures are being carried out, although with the delays derived from the pandemic. “The appropriate procedural channel is being carried out,” added the mayor without specifying deadlines.
Atlantic Tide calls on the Xunta to declare Casa Cornide as BIC by the “emergency route”
Marea Atlántica has demanded that the Xunta declare the Casa Cornide as an Asset of Cultural Interest (BIC) “by means of urgency, to prevent the Franco from selling the heritage of A Coruña”.
In a statement, it indicates that the property, which belonged to the historian Jose Cornide, “the wife of the dictator was honored in a fraud of law, demonstrated with documentary evidence”.
For this reason, it demands the Galician Government to act ex officio and declare the Casa Cornide as BIC, by emergency means, to “prevent” its sale after it appears on a real estate portal.
“This building is the patrimony of the city of A Coruña”, affirms the vice spokesperson for Marea Atlántica in the A Coruña City Council, Iago Martinez, which assures that the Franco family “knows that they are going to lose it, as is happening to them with the Pazo de Meirás, and they want to make money first, but they cannot indulge.”
The Franco’s lawyer, Luis Felipe Utrera Molina, has defended this Wednesday that its clients have the right to sell “any property that is theirs”, in relation to the announcement of the sale of the Casa Cornide, in A Coruña.
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