One of the founding principles of international heritage law, included inter alia in the Preamble of the 1954 Hague Convention, states that “damage to cultural property belonging to any people whatsoever means damage to the cultural heritage of all mankind”. The latest practice of the International Criminal Court and general trend of victim-centered justice seem to move toward putting it in place. However, poor awareness of suffered parties’ rights, certain constraints within the national criminal law system, insufficient activity of law enforcement agencies, lengthy proceedings and other obstacles limit, if not deny, access to justice and rights to an effective remedy to all those suffering from damage and destruction of heritage sites. Thus, in Latvia, generally only the National Heritage Board is recognized as a victim in heritage crimes. The presentation, based on the in-depth research of scientific literature, international and national case law, is going to give an overview of interests suffering as a result of heritage crime and provide an authors’-developed correlation scheme between the types of parties victimized by damage to/ destruction of a heritage site, the nature of harm as well as the most appropriate type of remedy corresponding to the harmed interests.