The judicial court of Nanterre, outside Paris, gave the green light to the sale of the Ballon d’Or Diego Armando Maradona won for the 1986 World Cup, thus maintaining the auction organized by Aguttes on June 6.
The lawyer of Maradona’s heirs, Gilles Moreau, He explained to EFE this Thursday upon receiving the judicial decision that “they will do all possible appeals” until then.
“A unique asset for the family”
Moreau He explained that they have filed an appeal with the Court of Appeal of Versailles and that he now hopes to get a hearing before the 6th to stop the sale.
“The Ballon d’Or is a unique possession of children Diego Maradona they want to recover. No compensation will be able to repair the damage suffered if this trophy is sold,” he said. “We are talking,” he added, “about a trophy, not a simple asset that will ultimately remain with a very rich collector. “
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The opinion considers that the seller, Abdelhamid B.acted “good-naturedly” when he bought the trophy in a second-category auction in 2016 for a ridiculous amount (1.20 euros, according to Moreu).
The judge’s arguments
Therefore, for the judge, the sale on June 6 of the object “does not require an imminent danger” for the interests of the heirs.
“Our clients are both surprised and saddened,” acknowledged the lawyer, estimating that the auction should be suspended until the dispute is clarified.
However, according to the legal advice of the collector and the Aguttes house, in addition to good faith on the part of Abdelhamid B. When he got it, after three years without a claim from Maradona’s heirs, the thing was legally his.
El Pelusa’s family claims the Ball was stolen from a bank in Naples in the late 1980s along with other possessions of Maradona Since then, it lost track and only appeared in 2016, when he bought it Abdelhamid B.who always claimed to have won it without knowing it was Maradona’s Ballon d’Or.
In parallel with the heirs’ process, the Central Office of Traffic in Cultural Assets of France is investigating whether there has been a crime of “concealing a stolen object” by the collector.
Source: La Verdad
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