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Spain: Call for depenalisation of squatting

01 January 1999

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Last December in Barcelona 23 youths were acquitted of "usurping" property after it was revealed that they had authorisation from the owner. The owner saw the squatters on the first day of their occupation, and informed them that they would receive further information on the situation - an act the judge interpreted as consent. The trial was accompanied by protests supporting the defendants, leading up to a celebratory demonstration on December 18 calling for the depenalisation of squatting. Members of Barcelona's Centro Social Okupado (Occupied Social Centres, CSO), in which projects, initiatives and activities take place, have denounced the demolition of several squatted houses. On December 11 the CSO Tararin in Sant Boi was demolished while the occupants were out. Their belongings were buried in the ruins. It was the latest attack on the centre, whose demolition had been prevented two weeks earlier by people in the building. A representative of the firm which carried out the demolition of the Kan Warmi squat last August claimed that they went ahead in the belief that the house was uninhabited - despite the fact that repairs had obviously been made following a previous demolition attempt.

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