• In Les Arcs-sur-Argens, a house, whose owner is deceased, had been squatted since September by ten people after a break-in.

  • An opposition demonstration brought together several hundred people on Saturday pushing the squatters to vacate the premises on Tuesday.

The demonstration organized on Saturday with several hundred people was probably decisive.

The occupation without title or authorization since the end of September of a house in Arcs-sur-Argens, and whose owner is deceased, ended on Tuesday,

the Var prefecture

confirmed to

20 minutes

.

An eviction judgment was pending application at the end of the winter break which, due to the health crisis, was postponed until May 31, 2021. But the occupants finally left on their own, "the demonstration scares them, "rejoiced with

Var-Matin

, the heir of the owner.

About ten people including two mothers

“We must have their departure recorded by a bailiff before claiming to regain possession of our property.

They still have time to come back and reclaim it, ”Jean-Philippe Victor told the regional daily.

He explains "that a security guard is already posted near the building so as to make them want to show off."

According to the Draguignan prosecutor's office, ten people including two mothers and two children occupied the villa "Sole mio".

The two women "broke into the house, first damaging the actuator of the gate to the property, then the pane of a glass door," said prosecutor Patrice Camberou.

The new law could not apply

They were a 46-year-old Bosnian national and another woman who could not prove her identity in court, according to the November 3 deportation order.

"The law on the squat of December 7 [which could have accelerated the procedure] does not apply in this context because it is not retroactive", had indicated the prefecture of Var.

After this change in legislation, the government asked the prefects in January to speed up the “forced evacuations” of squatted housing, including during the winter break, after several media cases, notably in Théoule-sur-Mer, in the department. neighbor of the Alpes-Maritimes.

The young couple who illegally occupied the property of retirees from Lyon there was sentenced to an eight-month suspended prison sentence.

Justice

The couple, "who showed few regrets" after the squat of a house in Théoule-sur-Mer, sentenced to a suspended sentence

Society

The owner of the squatted house in Théoule-sur-Mer wants the trial to "prevent this problem from happening to others"

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