Auction of animal heads in Yuanmingyuan: French agents extort human rights in China. Yesterday, the reporter learned from Ren Xiaohong, a China lawyer practicing in France, that the Paris Court of Grand Instance will hold a hearing at 0: 30 1 1 30 local time on the 23rd to suspend Christie's auction of the bronze statue of the Yuanmingyuan Bunny in France. According to the law, Christie's may not auction these two China cultural relics before the court's decision. It is reported that the trial result of this trial may be announced as early as that night, but it may also be announced the next morning. At the same time, Liu Yang, the chief lawyer of China Law Group who pursued the lost cultural relics overseas, flew to Paris yesterday 1: 30 to continue to pursue the lost bronze statue of the rabbit's head and mouse's head in Yuanmingyuan. Ren Xiaohong, the author of the complaint, told the reporter that according to the relevant French laws, the Paris Court of Grand Instance had the right to refuse to accept the complaint at that time, but in the end, the French side decided to hold a hearing on the case. Ren Xiaohong said that this lawsuit is only a strategic means. The purpose is to suspend the auction on the 23rd first, and then solve it by other means. "Personally, I think it is very unlikely that these two bronze animal heads can be returned only through this lawsuit. However, if we can awaken the domestic people's cherish and love for their cultural relics through this lawsuit, so that China's cultural relics will no longer be stolen and sold overseas, this is far more important than the success or failure of this lawsuit itself. " Ren Xiaohong said. According to her introduction, the loss rate of cultural relics in China has been rising in recent years. At present, at least millions of China cultural relics have been lost overseas. Even some French museums that specialize in collecting China cultural relics have to expand their new exhibition halls to accommodate these cultural relics that have just been stolen from China. "Although the French parliament did not consider and pass the relevant international conventions of the United Nations, many French people with conscience know that they are morally wrong in doing so. Mr. Gomez of the European Association for the Protection of Chinese Art is a Frenchman who is committed to saving China cultural relics. " Ren Xiaohong said. It is reported that Gomez sued a local French museum for illegally displaying cultural relics stolen from China, and demanded that the relevant personnel of the museum be investigated for criminal responsibility. Later, due to the transfer of the presiding judge, the case was dropped. "As a French cultural relic expert, Gomez's move was controversial in France at that time, and the French media criticized him for not bringing a lawsuit against the lost cultural relics in China. Gomez, on the other hand, thinks that he must have been from China in his previous life, and he has an obligation to help China's cultural relics return. In fact, the French don't know the crimes they committed during the colonial period, or even the letter about Yuanmingyuan written by Hugo. I hope that this lawsuit will also let the French know some of their own history. " Ren Xiaohong said. The reporter learned that China's lawyer stopped the auction of bronze animal heads in Yuanmingyuan, which also attracted widespread media attention in France. Recently, French newspapers published related articles in succession. After receiving the complaint, the agent of this auction issued a statement to the French media, saying that the cultural relic would not be given to China as a gift, and linked the incident with human rights issues, with the intention of politicizing China's lawyer's action to recover the cultural relic. "There are many French journalists who believe that our action to recover cultural relics has the background of the China government. I told them, in fact, on the contrary, we began to seek the help of relevant government departments, which made us take less detours. Finally, the European Association for the Protection of Chinese Art, a Frenchman Gomez, helped us with the lawsuit at the last minute. Now I think it is a bit far-fetched to let our government agencies be plaintiffs, and the educational significance of letting the French be plaintiffs may be even greater. It also conforms to some local laws and regulations in France. " Ren Xiaohong said.