Mārupe's Sawed-Down Mighty Oak Becomes Legally Immortal — Even Liepāja Theatre Isn't This Dramatic
Mārupe's mighty oak, which was criminally sawed down, is now legally immortal — the court rules that the stump will remain in place forever.
The story of Mārupe's mighty oak has become such a captivating legal drama that even Liepāja Theatre, where Riga residents also travel to, wouldn't stage such a complex play. The court has decided that the sawed-down oak, though dead, is still protected as if alive. It's like a zombie movie, but with trees and lawyers.
Developer "Zeninvest" tried to get permission to demolish the stump, but the Nature Conservation Agency firmly said "no." Their reasoning is wonderful — the tree was sawed down criminally, so now it has even greater rights to protection. It's like saying a murdered person becomes even more alive.
"Zeninvest" co-owner Oskars Kalniņš denies any connection to the crime, claiming their construction workers haven't been on site since April. Apparently the tree sawed itself down — or it was suicide from despair over the upcoming row house construction.
Meanwhile, one of the participants has already received probation supervision and will pay the state 27,500 euros. For this amount you could buy a whole forest plot in Liepāja, but in Mārupe it's just the price of one tree. Now the stump will remain in place as a monument to how absurd bureaucracy can be — dead, but legally alive.
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