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Current AffairsOpocno chateau back in state hands
After more than a decade of ownership disputes in the Czech courts, east
Bohemia's renaissance Opocno Chateau is now back in state hands. On
Tuesday, Countess Kristina Colloredo-Mansfeld - a descendant of the
original owners of the popular tourist attraction - handed over the
chateau to the national heritage institute. She was forced to give back
the property to the state because her father is accused of having
collaborated with the Nazis.
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Current AffairsConstitutional Court decision rekindles restitution battle for Opocno Castle
The Czech Constitutional Court this week overturned a regional court's
decision to return the historic Opocno Castle in eastern Bohemia to the
aristocratic family that had owned it for centuries. The ruling could call
into question the restitution of historic properties worth hundreds of
millions of dollars. More
Current AffairsNoble family celebrates victory as court returns castle to original owners
There was victory for one of the country's old aristocratic families this
week, when a court in Hradec Kralove ended a 12-year legal row by ruling
that a Renaissance-era castle belongs to the family of nobles that owned
it for hundreds of years before World War II. Opocno Castle was first
seized by the Nazis and then nationalised by the Communists after the war,
but it's taken more than a decade for the former owners to wrench it back
from the Czech state. Rob Cameron reports.
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