The judges of Barcelona They have made a decision about the squatters that can sit jurisprudence in the rest of Spain. In the Autonomous Community in which more crimes of raid and usurpation occurred in Spain in 2024, they have made the decision to cut the basic supplies to the squatters is not constituting a crime. This decision can mark a before and after before the problem of the squatting in Spain. In this month of April the evictions express also that both the PSOE and Can and add they tried to stop in their day.
April It is presented as a month that can mark a before and after in regards to the squatting in Spain. The Okupas They are still a problem in our country, although from the government they try to run a thick veil with an evil that affects hundreds of thousands of owners distributed throughout Spain. Even in the last decree bus A clause was included to protect people in a situation of vulnerability with minors in charge. All this while the cases of squatting continue to increase in Spain year after year.
In the past 2024 they were counted in Spain 16,400 cases of purple usurpation and search, being the third highest figure since the Home Office Account these complaints. Keep in mind that only complaints made before the State Security Forces and Bodies are counted. Even so, the growth was 7.4% compared to 2023, date on which 15,289 cases were counted.
Catalonia It is the Autonomous Community of Spain in which more crimes of usurpation and search occurred, with a total of 7,009 cases, 42% of those that occurred in the country. Andalusia (2.207), Valencian Community (1,767) and Madrid (1,451) follow it in this classification that makes it clear that data kills a story and that, despite the fact that from the government they catalog it as “bullo” or “misinformation”, our country has a problem with the squatters while the measures that arrive from the Moncloa remain lax.
The decision of the judges with the squatters
Before the inoperance of Government and seen the problems in Cataloniathe magistrates of the criminal sections of the Provincial Court of Barcelona have taken a measure that can sit jurisprudence in the rest of Spain. At a meeting on March 7, these judges unified criteria in cases of real estate and purple search.
The judges of Barcelona reached an agreement so that the cut of the basic supplies to the squatters by the owners is not constituting a crime, as it was so far. “In the event that the holder of a farm (in property regime or any other title that enables its use) occupied or that has been subject to purple search does not keep the registration of the supplies or the payment of them, it will not be constitutive of a crime of coercion,” reflects the document on the criteria unification agreement The economist.
Express evictions arrive
This decision of the judges of Barcelona can mark a before and after in what has to do with the squatting in Spain. This last April 3, except for the drastic change ‘to the last minute Pedro Sánchez’, the rule on express evictions that has already been approved in Congress and published in the Official State Gazette Last May.
This amendment, which is an initiative promoted by the PNV and followed by the Popular Party or Junts, modifies article 795.1 of the Criminal Procedure Law so that the crimes of purple of purple (article 202 of the Criminal Code) and usurpation (article 245 of the Criminal Code) are resolved by rapid judgments. So, although PSOE, add and we can vote against this rule in the Congress of Deputies, now, once these crimes enter into a judicial case, they will be resolved within 15 days.
Pedro Sánchez, president of the Government. (EFE)This will not affect the famous Inquiokupationthe fashion practice today for the squatters, which occurs when a tenant stops paying a rent and remains in the house. This causes great difficulties to the owners and more when the lessee, who does not pay, is in a situation of vulnerability with minors in charge.
