(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #252 (n° spécial) -
Occupations: A legislative arsenal against squatters (fr, it, pt)
[machine translation]
Legislation proposed by the parliamentary right are based on various facts fantasized old
ladies thrown into the street by squatters to further penalize the occupation of empty
housing practices. ---- Three laws were proposed in Parliament by former UMP, new
Republicans to penalize the occupation practices. That of Senator-Mayor of Calais, N.
Bouchart was adopted June 11 The very act of trespass, which was previously 48 hours
continuing offense becomes a home occupation, facilitating expeditious deportation of
"squatters" by the police. This legitimate inhumane situations in which people, who often
have no choice but to occupy empty premises, are thrown into the street. For example, it
was believed recently to blow propaganda, only Calais, an elderly woman found herself in
the street after leaving the hospital because of migrants in his house.
In this case, in fact, how not to worry to find his home squatted upon returning from
vacation? Except that the reality is different, of course. These are not the main homes
that are occupied but empty rooms, often dilapidated and abandoned by their owners.
Two years in prison and a 30,000 euro fine
The recent "case Maryvonne" in Rennes uses the same springs: this lady of 83 years would
have been dislodged by poorly intentionés squatters. In fact, she was no longer living in
the house she had abandoned twelve years. This is also the age of the places that was
invoked to transfer the occupants. This story, too, was a pretext for a bill submitted by
the UMP J. Aubert that would extend the occupancy offense without right or title to "any
property belonging to a third party" . Consequently persons occupying companies,
universities or any other place to establish the balance of power in social struggles
might go to criminal court.
We do not know yet when the bill will be discussed. Can be quickly because it has the
support of more than eighty parliamentarians (some extreme right). For this, N. Le Fur
(UMP) proposes to double the penalty for these occupations to two years in prison and a
30,000 euro fine!
These "business" of old ladies to another common point of having been mounted pin by
right-wing groups, whose ideological and pragmatic links with the UMP appear so clearly.
The criminalization of those who practice the occupation is accompanied by the recovery of
the speculative real estate. Besides Maryvonne made a sacred good real estate transaction
since it planned to sell his house, bought 45,000 francs at a price of 330,000 euros to
developers. So these laws are part of a political project to protect the rich and their
money whose value appears higher than the lives of the poor, precarious, migrants,
activists they criminalize.
Faced with these texts, all our energy and our vigilance will be needed to oppose with force!
Lucia (AL Rennes)
To go further: https://nantes.indymedia.org/articles/31567
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Occupations-Un-arsenal-legislatif
