Aragón says its technicians will "enter" the MNAC if the museum refuses to enforce the Sijena ruling.

BarcelonaClash of arguments between Catalan and Aragonese art conservators on the transfer of the mural paintings of Sijena, after the Supreme Court ruling which requires them to be returned to the monastery of Vilanova de Sijena. an operation "delicate in itself, like when they were moved to Barcelona," and which must be carried out under "specific conditions, with the technicians perfectly aligned so that the paintings do not suffer any deterioration," but argued that "there are segments that have traveled to New York and London, and within the MNAC they have been moved seven times." The MNAC has warned in a statement that the paintings present "extreme fragility due to the alteration of the pigments and support materials, as confirmed by several recent scientific studies." intervention that should be carried out to return the paintings to their original location", as well as "the real and stable environmental conditions that would be offered by the space" intended to house them within the monastery. For all these reasons, the CRAC supports the "conservation criteria expressed by the MNAC" and requests that any decision regarding the future of the paintings, the objective of guaranteeing their conservation for future generations."

Along the same lines, the Association of Architects for the Defense and Intervention in Architectural Heritage (AADIPA) has expressed the need for the paintings to remain in the MNAC "for exclusively technical criteria and heritage preservation." structural fragility and alteration of the original materials" and say that the chapter house of the Sijena monastery, where Aragon wants to install the pieces, "does not have the technical guarantees to ensure stable conditions" for the conservation of the paintings. They also recall that the restoration work carried out in Catalonia "cannot be disregarded" and therefore demand that "international institutions and the MNAC maintain the paintings at the MNAC for conservation reasons" and that the Aragonese administration "promote agreements to protect the heritage above any other consideration."

The ANC is considering mobilizations and legal actions

In parallel, the Catalan National Assembly (ANC) has announced that it will consider mobilizations and legal action in response to the Supreme Court ruling requiring the paintings to be returned to Aragon. In a statement, the ANC explained that the president of the organization, Lluís Llach, and the coordinator of the legal management committee, Josep Cruanyes, met online with the former Minister of Culture, Lluís Puig, to analyze the situation arising from the ruling.

Llach described the ruling as "an attack on world heritage" and warned that it will endanger "works that, from all technical points of view, are best left unchanged from their current location." "Without a single protective measure for the paintings, they seem to confirm that they prefer destruction to exhibition in our country, despite being the nation that saved them," he added.

The ANC has announced that it will explore legal options "to stop the cultural massacre" and "take legal action against those responsible for failing to guarantee the protection of a national and global heritage." The assembly considers the Supreme Court's decision to be the result of "aggressive Catalanophobia" and calls on Catalan society "to stop the plundering that Catalonia suffers from Spain."