An heiress got a strange fright when she went to visit her father’s house in Bourgoin-Jallieu (Isère), which had been empty for ten years due to an inheritance dispute. The lock had been changed, as Le Dauphiné Libéré revealed on the 26 of March. They then contacted the police to enter the building. There, they discovered a furnished flat with a fully equipped kitchen, a television, an internet box, a sofa, mattresses upstairs… and painting work in progress.
At that moment, two men in construction clothing enter the property. They are arrested immediately. One of the two, a 30-year-old man of Tunisian origin, is taken into police custody as the police realise that he is obliged to leave the country (OQTF). The man is taken into police custody and attempts to flee.
On his immediate summons, the 30-year-old asserts that he had permission to take up residence in the house and claims that he had planned to leave after Ramadan. He added: ‘The house was dilapidated, the door was open’. At the hearing, he also explained that he was convinced that his residence ban was only for one year. This reasoning did not convince the judiciary, as the man was eventually fined 1,000 euros for illegal occupation and given a four-month suspended sentence for his attempted escape.