Owners of Squat Houses Will Be Able to Cut Water and Gas, Judges Say.

Judges have determined that the owner of illegally occupied housing may cut off or stop paying for supplies without this being a crime of coercion.

When we talk about squat, we often imagine a group of offenders, profiting free of charge from the housing of others (apartment, house) after being illegally immigrated there. But the phenomenon is far from being summed up in this mediatic cliché. Faced with the housing crisis and exacerbated precariousness, illegal occupation takes on new forms in France... Private swimming pools, pleasure boats and even forests are now targeted by the intruder…