Why did the Dutch courts not accept the case of the ancestral temple of the ancestors? Experts explain
In 1995, Zhang Gongzu, who was stolen in Sanming, Fujian, sat in the body of a Buddha and rushed into the hands of Dutch collectors. After learning about the whereabouts of the Buddha sitting in the flesh, the villagers asked the collectors for recourse. The case may be one of the first cases in which Chinese cultural relics were successfully recovered through court rather than through diplomatic channels. But unfortunately, the Amsterdam District Court of the Netherlands issued a written ruling on the website on December 12, local time, saying that it was inadmissible for the villagers in Fujian, China, to recover the statue of the ancestral temple of the ancestors of the Dutch collector Fan Ovilim. According to Dutch media reports, the court held that the village committee was not a natural or legal person defined in the Dutch Civil Procedure Code and did not have the qualification for litigation. Therefore, the case was not accepted. In this regard, Professor Huo Zhengxin, deputy de