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The Assembly examines an anti-squats bill, castigated by the left and associations

2022-11-28T06:51:15.219Z


The text, supported by the presidential majority and lambasted by the left, proposes to triple the penalties incurred by squatters, up to


The Assembly begins this Monday the examination of a sensitive anti-squat bill, which could be adopted with the votes of the LR and RN deputies, and despite the opposition of the left and associations.

Carried by the groups of the presidential majority Renaissance and Horizons, the text proposes to triple the penalties incurred by the squatters up to three years in prison and a fine of 45,000 euros.

“Currently a squatter risks one year in prison and a fine of 15,000 euros.

But the owner who changes the lock risks 3 years and 45,000 euros”, argues the rapporteur for the text Guillaume Kasbarian, also chairman of the Economic Affairs Committee.

An express eviction procedure

The deputy for Eure-et-Loir is not at his first attempt: he had provisions against squats voted in 2020 via a bill but part of the measures had been censored by the Constitutional Council which viewed them as legislative horsemen.

His bill provides in return the same penalty for those who pretend to be an owner in order to rent a property.

It specifies that the offense of entry into the home also concerns second homes, and extends the express eviction procedure, without recourse to a judge, to vacant dwellings, empty of furniture.

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The text also reduces the duration of legal proceedings, and provides that certain time limits that may be granted by a judge are now only possible if the tenant makes the request himself.

“A clear attack on the office of the eviction judge” for the left, which fears a lack of recourse for tenants.

The bill also wants to comfort lessors in the face of unpaid bills, again planning to shorten procedural deadlines.

In the absence of an absolute majority, the presidential camp should turn to its right to have the text voted on.

"This law is a homeless factory"

“This text will have to be the occasion to make the share of the things.

We must not react in the same way against squats, in particular those maintained by slum landlords, as against unpaid tenants, ”warned Housing Minister Olivier Klein in early November.

The rebellious deputies, communists and environmentalists are upwind, even if some ultramarine deputies on the left support amendments for strong measures in Overseas.

"This law is a homeless factory", denounces LFI MP Danielle Simonnet, whose group intends to file a motion of rejection prior to the text.

His colleague François Piquemal had castigated in committee a bill “news item”, in view of the some “170” expulsion procedures completed in 2021.

The Ministry of Housing had estimated in 2021 that "the squat is not a massive phenomenon in France".

For its part, the Association Droit au Logement (DAL) held a rally on Sunday against the text which presents “squatters as criminals as they seek shelter”.

Source: leparis

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