Overview

• Aragón filed a written notice to the Huesca court alleging technicians from the Culture Ministry, Barcelona City Council and the Generalitat may have acted on the murals at MNAC without its authorization.
• Minister Ernest Urtasun recently said ministry teams are working with Catalan and Barcelona technicians to prepare reports on how to implement the sentence, though he did not state that interventions on the murals were underway.
• Aragón’s culture chief Pedro Olloqui insists any work requires approval from the recognized owner and says the alleged interventions were neither communicated nor authorized.
• Olloqui sent letters to Urtasun and to the Huesca judge alerting them to the suspected activities and criticizing what he calls a “double language” from the central government.
• Aragón repeats conservation complaints that MNAC disputes, as the judge is expected to rule on the transfer timetable, which Olloqui says could come in the next days or weeks.