The National Assembly voted Friday in favor of tripling the penalties incurred by squatters, during the examination of a bill from the presidential majority.
The measure aligns the sanctions against squatters with those currently targeting an "owner who changes the lock", i.e. up to three years' imprisonment and a fine of 45,000 euros, argued its rapporteur, the Macronist deputy Guillaume Kasbarian.
To cover all cases, and not just "home invasion", another provision adopted on Friday also creates an offense of occupation without right or title, including premises for economic use, as requested by the group. LR.
Another article adopted on Friday also increases the penalties for those who pretend to be an owner in order to rent a property.
The “criminalization of all the poorly housed”
Guillaume Kasbarian insisted that the objective of the text was above all to protect "small owners who do not roll on gold", sometimes finding themselves confronted with long years of legal proceedings to regain the use of their property.
Without convincing the left, the wind is standing against an “anti-tenant” law and the “criminalization of all poorly housed people”.
Together with the associations, she criticizes the text in particular for being able to put on the street tenants weakened by inflation and rising energy bills.
The measure, adopted with 25 votes to 3, is one of the key provisions of a text also aimed at better protecting landlords against unpaid rents and whose examination continues this Friday in the hemicycle.
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