Northern Free Port: the Land Registry Judge denies the ownership’s registration.
Free Trieste renews the acts and the litigation.
The international Free Port of Trieste, State corporation of the Free Territory of Trieste.
On April 17th and 20th, Free Trieste’s President, Roberto Giurastante, and the Movement’s Responsabile of Foreign Policy, Paolo G. Parovel, officially requested that the ownership pf Trieste’s Northern Free Port be registered ex lege as “Demanio del Territorio Libero di Trieste – Porto Franco internazionale di Trieste”. In English: “State Property of the Free Territory of Trieste – international Free Port of Trieste“.
The document does also request the registration of the constraints pending over that area, which favor other States and international trades.
The title invoked to prove the request’s legitimacy is the Italian 1947 Peace Treaty. This international treaty establishes the special regulation on the matter as well as being implemented within the Italian domestic legislation.
The procedure of registration or the litigation of the ownership constitutes a legal and financial stop to all the illegal speculation attempts on the port area, which are promoted by the PD’s local heads, which are under serous anti-mafia questions.
However, on April 22nd Land Registry Judge (giudice tavolare) Arturo Picciotto has already rejected the request, without even registering its existence in the Land Register. Yet, he did not questioning the Treaty, justifying his decision with arguments the petitioners regad as “illogical and anti-legal”.
This is why the petitioners renewed the request, and have announced the initiation of legal proceedings to maintain the legal dispute standing and, therefore, preventing the housing speculations that they are denouncing as illegal from affecting the Free Port.
According to the petitioners, the official reasons of the rejection are unfounded, because they allege the lack of «Land Registry Numbers to which the above mentioned right refers» and that «unless successive, further deepening, the appellant do not proof neither their legitimation under Article 90 of the above mentioned Land Registry Law nor the ownership of the rights regarding the “non-profit political organization Movimento Trieste Libera”».
The petitioners object that the Land Registry Numbers are correctly listed, and are to be established after the request of registration regarding the area’s ownership is registered in the Land Register.
Also, the request is legitimately presented by citizens acting in the name of public interest, seeking the enforcement of omitted legal procedures – which are legal obligations – and in defense of a State asset at risk. Furthermore, eventual “deepening” should precede a rejection, not follow it. Finally, registering in the Land Register such a request is a legal obligation, no matter what.
The original document, in Italian and in English (care of the Free Trieste Movement).
Press Office of the Free Trieste Movement