In a years-long legal dispute over a property in the Tyrolean Polling (Innsbruck-Land district) now comes a momentous turn. A citizen lost in the second instance and must therefore return a property that the municipality sold him cheaply. The family is shocked by the verdict: “Devastating and incomprehensible.”
The case has already attracted a lot of attention. Mario Greil and his hometown of Polling have been at odds since 2019. It is a building plot that the municipality of Greil has sold for 60,000 euros, which is cheap by Tyrolean standards. But then the community reclaimed the property and filed a lawsuit. Why? Greil has kept quiet that his wife already has a reason. This contradicts the allocation guidelines for affordable housing in the city.
There was no misconduct in the first instance, but the Higher Regional Court did
The regional court dismissed the lawsuit and saw no wrongdoing on Greil’s part. He did not intentionally give false information, the verdict says. The council appealed. It is now clear: this has been successful and the judgment in the first instance is no longer valid. Greil should therefore have known very well that he should have specified his wife’s assets when submitting the application.
The Higher Regional Court accepts no excuse that this is currently unusable due to a clear sales ban, as Greil later argued.
The community has no choice, says the lawyer
Now everything comes down to dissolution of the purchase contract. The municipality has de facto no other choice, must act in the spirit of the judgment and taking into account the other real estate applicants, explains municipal lawyer Michael Rück on “Krone” request. Mayor Gabriele Rothbacher says she really didn’t want this situation: “If Greil had accepted the equation we offered, it would never have come this far.”
The Greil family is “shocked” by the verdict and wants to appeal to the Supreme Court. Greil’s father Robert, a combative local opposition politician, sees a proxy war “on my son’s back”. This is now without ground, but with tens of thousands of euros extra costs for process and planning. “This verdict is devastating and incomprehensible,” his father announced further legal action.
Source: Krone
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