The remains of the Roman Wall Claustra Alpium Iuliarum are protected cultural heritage, and interfering with such is not possible without a consent, and evaluation of consequences of such actions, explained the archaeologist Mija Topličanec from the Ljubljana unit of the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia.
"Ministry of Interior took advantage, and set the fence without complying with the cultural protection conditions. Had they addressed us, we would have told them immediately where to erect the fence and where it was not allowed, and thus the problem would be avoided. We learned about the fence only later, from the Croatian colleagues and the local inhabitants. We went to check the situation, and reacted."
Only in exceptional circumstances, e.g. due to natural disasters or general danger, the protected heritage can be interfered with without the consent of the competent institutes.
Following the warnings of the experts that the fence is fixed to the remains of the wall which is categorized as cultural heritage from the time of the Roman Empire, the Ministry of Interior tried to solve the complication by moving the fence for a couple of metres away from the wall, inwards on the Slovenian ground.
Goran Tenze, U.T., Radio Slovenija; translated by G. K.