The Police of La Unión denounce the owner for trespassing, because “we have to wait for the resolution of the judicial procedure”
The Local Police of La Unión has denounced a neighbor of the town for trying to enter a house he owns, which is squatted by a woman, forcing the lock. The events occurred at noon on Friday, according to local body sources, when the agents received several calls from residents of Tierno Galván street in which they reported that an individual was hitting the door of a ground floor house with an ax.
Upon arrival, they found the man in the final process of breaking the lock, with the cylinder of the lock already on the ground and forcing the opening with a goat’s leg between the frame and the door leaf. At that time, there was no one inside the house.
After being identified, he argued that he had inherited the house from his parents and wanted to take possession of it despite being occupied by a person “for a long time.” He also assured the agents that the ‘squatting’ – the usurpation of an empty or apparently empty dwelling in its day – was being denounced in court. After being informed by the agents that the eviction of the residents “can only be ordered by the courts” and, therefore, “it is necessary to wait for the corresponding resolution of the court”, proceedings were opened for a crime of trespassing. dwelling “at a tentative degree” and was taken to the Civil Guard barracks as a detainee, where he was later released with charges.
Sources from the local body explained that this crime is consummated when entering another’s home, but “if finally it is not entered inside, only an attempt is appreciated for the acts that have been carried out towards that end.” In the next few days, the report will be placed in the hands of the corresponding court, which must finally determine if there is any criminal offense.
controversy in networks
The case, which has been exposed by the Local Police itself on its official Facebook page, has generated dozens of comments, several of disapproval of the actions of the agents. The body, he assures in the publication, “does not make the rules, but they are enforced, otherwise, another criminal offense is committed, that of not prosecuting criminal acts.”
When one of the Facebook users asks the Police if there were “much more important things to enforce than arresting a person who is trying to recover his house”, from the Corps they assure that “it can cost the agent his job not to do comply with the law” and, in another response, states that “this is reality and hiding it for fear of being seen is perhaps a worse alternative”.
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