The Ministry of Interior has launched a new protocol of police action to try to speed up the eviction of squatters after the instruction recently given by the State Prosecutor's Office. The main novelty is that the 48-hour deadline for the agents to evict the squatters has been eliminated.
If the crime is flagrant or recent, the squatters can be expelled although the Interior does not establish any legal deadline for the police or civil guards to return the property to the rightful owner. Ministry sources reiterate that agents may act when the crime is recent.
Furthermore, it is established that there is a crime of breaking and entering both the first and second home occupations and in both cases it is possible to immediately evict the intruder without the need to request judicial measures and proceed to identify the squatters and carry out their arrest.
From now on, the national police, regional police, local police and civil guards must fill out a statement that includes all the elements that must be provided to the judicial authorities to prove the commission of a crime and the participation of the alleged perpetrators. "That the certificates are much more refined to speed up the judicial resolution and to see if the precautionary eviction proceeds judicially", explain sources of the Interior that cite, as examples of this information that the certificates may contain, the declaration of neighbors to the squatted property, the property title by the complainant, the result of the ocular inspection in the surroundings or other elements of evidence of the crime. Read more
How can we help you? Contact us now.
