They hadn’t paid the rent for months. Also, it is a fundamentally exasperated owner who has decided to intervene, to preserve her finances as much as possible. Maria, who explained herself in the columns of the CNews newspaper, admits that she did not respect the law: in order not to have to take into account the winter break that will eventually come, she decided to take advantage of her tenants’ holidays to go home, empty the apartment and have all the locks changed. A “private justice that has no place in France” or in Carcassonne, in the Aude where this case took place, according to the lawyer for the forcibly evicted family.
“I emptied the house, completely. And when they came back from vacation, they called the police. They made a bailiff’s report, I was summoned and we are in the middle of the procedure”, assumes the owner in front of the microphones of the newspaper marked on the right.
What decided Maria, she explains, was the fear of losing more than 20,000 euros in additional rent. A very potential miscalculation, since non-compliance with the law now exposes him to significant criminal penalties. She risks, if the burglary is recognized, up to 7 years in prison and a fine of 100,000 euros.
Due to the heat wave, reports La Dépêche, squats have increased in recent months… particularly in houses equipped with swimming pools. However, this does not mean that one should do justice oneself rather than go through legal procedures.
