They left before the police intervened.
The fifteen occupants who had been squatting for several days in the house of an 84-year-old man, route de Launaguet, in Toulouse, left the premises in the early morning hours on Wednesday.
After a call launched on social networks by his daughter, residents had mobilized against this illegal occupation which threatened to break the current sale of this property.
The third in two years.
While the tension was mounting, the retiree and his daughter had seized the prefect of Haute-Garonne at the beginning of the week.
The latter had triggered an accelerated eviction procedure, forcing the squatters to leave the premises within 24 hours, under penalty of being evicted by the police.
“This morning, the police were able to note the liberation of the premises without it therefore being necessary to evict the occupants.
The legal conditions for implementing the accelerated expulsion procedure were met, thus making it possible to achieve a very rapid favorable outcome, ”the prefecture said in a press release.
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