Overseas cultural relics lawsuit lasting three years: six villagers went to the Netherlands to pursue stolen flesh statues

In order to recover the Buddha statues of the "Zhanggongzu" of the villagers of Yangchun Village, the six villagers' representatives crossed the ocean and went to court with the Dutch collector Fan Ovilim, who currently owns the Buddha statue, and asked the other party to return the Buddha statue. In the 2018 Buddha's birthday, the villagers offered offerings. Respondents for the picture Text|New Beijing News reporter Party Yuanyue Edit | Chen Xiaoshu Proofreading | Zhang Yanjun This article is about 8418 words, it takes about 17 minutes to read the full text. On December 12, 2018, in response to the case of Fujian villagers recovering the statue of Zhang Gongzu from the Dutch collectors, the Amsterdam District Court of the Netherlands made a judgment and refused to accept it. The court held that the Yangchun Village Committee of the plaintiff's litigation body was not a natural or legal person as defined in the Dutch Civil Procedure Code and did not qualify for litigation. After learning about the results of the Dutch lawsuit, Xu Huajie, a member of the Chinese Lawyers Group, will convene a team of lawyers and villagers to discuss the next steps. She said that villagers and lawyers will "protect their rights and never give up." Before the announcement of the judgment, the Dutch lawyer Yang Hao of the Fujian villagers told the Beijing News that the Dutch court's decision on December 12 was only a preliminary judgment. It will take some time to determine the final affiliation of Zhang Gongzu. Late in the night after the announcement of the Dutch judgment, a villager in Yangchun sent a WeChat to the reporter of the Beijing News: "Disappointment, regret, helplessness, no words, no words." In the past month or so, six villagers from Yangchun Village, Fujian Province, China, crossed the ocean and recovered the statues of the “Zhanggongzu Shi”, which were worshipped by the villagers of Yangchun Village for generations. At the end of 2015, the villagers launched a cross-border lawsuit against the Dutch collector Fan Ovilim, who currently owns a Buddha statue, and asked the other party to return the Buddha statue. Going to the Netherlands On October 31, 2018, at 1:30 pm Dutch time, the Amsterdam District Court opened. Lin Yongtuan, a villager from Yangchun Village, Fujian Province, China, sat in the second row of the auditorium, looking around: the carpet was blue, the same color as the Amsterdam sky. Before the auditorium, a thin, tall, bald-headed man was sitting on his left hand. It was their Dutch lawyer, and the Chinese name was Yang Lan. On the right hand side is the dock, the defendant has a curly hair, wearing a black casual suit, and a pair of round-rimmed glasses slides to the middle of the nose. It was him - Dutch architect and collector Oscar Van Ovilim, and Lin Yongtuan recognized it at a glance. In the past three years, he has seen many photos of Van Ovilim. Next to Lin Yongtuan, there are five other villagers from Yangchun Village, villagers Lin Wenqing, Lin Leju, Yang Chuncun village branch secretary Lin Kai'an, former village branch secretary Lin Kaiwang, and Dongpu village branch secretary Shulin Ding. This is the last moment in 23 years since they were "Zhang Gongzu". The hearing opened for more than three hours. The 49-year-old Lin Yongtuan, with a frowning eye, tried to curb the drowsiness caused by the jet lag and discerned the words from the simultaneous interpretation in the headphones.