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By his action, Mr. Gochin seeks to have declared illegal and revoked a series of certificates issued by the Center on Mr. Noreik.
The Vilnius City District Court refused to accept the claim of a Lithuanian citizen living in the United States for the first time on June 8. According to him, Mr. Gochin did not indicate in his application what specific rights were violated by those certificates.
According to the court, “an abstract interest of a person does not mean an interest to be defended in court”.
“Civil proceedings are not intended to support the historical scientific debate or to consolidate its results,” the court said in a ruling issued in June.
G. Gochin appealed against this decision to the Vilnius Regional Court and requested to return the matter of acceptance of the claim to the Vilnius District Court for reconsideration.
Judge Dainius Rinkevičius, who examined the appeal, held that the lower court was correct in holding that “the documents requested by the plaintiff to be declared illegal do not affect the plaintiff’s substantive rights and obligations.”
“When filing an application in court, individuals must indicate which of their rights have been violated and which protected interests should be protected. The plaintiff’s declared interest in the defendant’s publications that offend him is abstract in nature and cannot be defended in court, ”reads the ruling issued last week.
It emphasizes that people do not have the right to go to court to defend the rights of another person.
“In this case, the plaintiff does not defend any of his subjective rights, questions the accuracy of the certificates of the Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research Center, seeks that Jonas Noreika’s activities be evaluated differently than the accused,” he notes. the decision.
G. Gochin asked the court for the certificate “Activities of Jonas Noreika in Nazi-Occupied Lithuania” issued in 2015, the explanation “On the allegations against Jonas Noreika” issued last spring and the certificate issued in December last year on the J. Noreika’s activities in the anti-national subsoil.
The disputed 2015 certificate states that “during the German occupation, Jonas Noreika did not participate in the mass extermination of Jews in Telšiai and Šiauliai counties,” but “managed to involve him in the management of issues related to the isolation of Jews.”
In April, the Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania also rejected G. Gochin’s request to compel the Genocide and Resistance Research Center to change the historical conclusion on J. Noreika’s activities during World War II.
In recent years, a commemorative plaque dedicated to J. Noreika in the Wrublebsk Library building of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences in the center of the capital has been the subject of much discussion.
Critics say such an honorable perpetuation is inconsistent with the fact that J. Noreika, who worked as Šiauliai County Governor, signed letters on the establishment of the Jewish ghetto and the administration of Jewish property.
Proponents of J. Noreika’s commemorative plaque emphasize that he himself was involved in anti-Nazi activities, was arrested by the Gestapo and locked up in the Stutthof concentration camp, and operated in the anti-Soviet underground.
The officer was arrested in March 1946 and shot the following year by the Soviet occupation authorities.
Before World War II, more than 200 thousand people lived in Lithuania. Jews In the years of German occupation, more than 90 percent. of them assassinated by Nazis and local collaborators.
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