When selling 'York & Albany', his Camden restaurant-hotel in London, chef and television presenter Gordon Ramsay probably didn't imagine he would have to make such a profit. The multi-million dollar transaction has been put on hold since The Sun newspaper revelations.
The British daily revealed the presence of several people, a group of five men and a woman, who illegally occupied the pub. In the images obtained by the tabloid, we see a man sleeping on one of the restaurant's leather sofas, amid the waste strewn on the floor.
The group took advantage of the temporary closure of the restaurant to move in and barricade themselves. Now the six squatters are threatening to take legal action if anyone tries to evict them. Since the building is not residential, the laws are more vague than if they were in a simple house.
According to them, they would therefore have the right to stay there. They even went so far as to put up posters on the street side to dissuade anyone from disturbing them. “Any entry or attempted entry without our permission will be considered a criminal act” we can read.
Faced with this, Gordon Ramsay called the police and initiated procedures to obtain the eviction of the squatters, without success for the moment.