Nijmegen: court case of the Varkensstal

By: fawda - December 7th, 2025  Filed under: Communique, News

On the 4th of december 2025 we had a court case regarding our occupation of the Varkensstal, on the Van Schuylenburgweg 20 in Nijmegen. This ended in us making an agreement with the owners of the building, based on which we will leave the building on the 1st of february, provided the building is brought into use shortly after that.

As part of that agreement we will also pay the costs of gas, water and electricity, as well as allowing the owner access into the building for inspection and research, provided they give advance warning.
Sadly, part of the agreement was also that we would no longer hold events in the building, we were very excited to do something nice for the neighbourhood, and we hope that sometime in the future we will still be able to. [Read More]

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Brussels: new eviction postponed for the Collectif Zone Neutre

By: fawda - August 27th, 2025  Filed under: Communique, News

On Wednesday, August 27, the mobilization paid off! The police and the bailiff were unable to pass the tight ranks of people present in front of the building at Square de l’Aviation in Anderlecht. Thank you and congratulations to all. It’s a victory in a long battle for dignity and housing: we remain mobilized for the future. The day before, the mayor had refused to take part in preventing this eviction on the pretext that a complaint had been filed by the owner for non-execution of police orders, even though the hearing has been postponed to November 3 and there has therefore been no judgment.

Nordin Amrabat involved in eviction of 70 people in Brussels

Collective Zone Neutre, a collective of 70 people in Brussels, has been threatened with another eviction on August 27. The Dutch owners of the building refuse to enter into talks with the collective to reach an agreement. Brussels is therefore reaching out to the Netherlands for international solidarity to put pressure on the footballer Nordin Amrabat, the business partner of the company FMM Holding BV. [Read More]

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Nijmegen: former H&M on Broerstraat squatted

By: fawda - July 29th, 2025  Filed under: Communique, News

update july 29 – The examining magistrate decided Jantien squatters can remain in the building. Owner Rob Hendriks was unsuccessful in kicking the squatters out.

Nijmegen – On Tuesday 8 July, Jantien, the squatters collective based in Nijmegen squatted the building at Broerstraat 16. After two and a half years of vacancy, the building owned by Ton Hendriks has finally been taken into the hands of the housing revolt. Jantien, in collaboration with De Steeg, wants to make way for a homeless walk-in that can be established there at least twice a week.

The next few weeks we will work hard to make the dilapidated building livable and usable for their purposes and housing for those who need it. We want to make this place available as an accessible “Third Space” for everyone who wants to be welcome there.

There is twice as much homelessness today as forty years ago, during the height of the squatters’ movement and the waiting lists for social housing are now also twice as high as then. Social services and education are being cut back and there is less and less room for collective expression in our society. [Read More]

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Athens: No squatter in prison! Campaign for the court expenses of Koukaki Squats Community

By: fawda - July 26th, 2025  Filed under: Communique, News

It was March 2017 when we first opened the door of 45 Matrozou str. and began repairing the building so that it could house our struggles, desires, needs and bodies. And when these, a few months later, could no longer fit in one building we opened two more buildings that were rotting abandoned in the neighborhood of Koukaki, 21 Panaitoliou str. and the Blue House (3 Arvali str.). This is how Koukaki Squats Community was created in the center of Athens.

From then until 2020, Koukaki Squats Community had been a political community that combined anarchist struggle with communal life. The doors of its houses were open for those who wished to fight back against state violence and injustice, for people who needed shelter or wished to use its public structures, for those who sought a collective way of life. It was also an open political and social space accessible to the inhabitants of one of the most gentrified neighborhoods in Athens. [Read More]

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Amsterdam: squatters win courtcase!

By: fawda - April 14th, 2025  Filed under: Communique, News

In December 2024, a group of squatters decided to move into a vacant office building in the south east of Amsterdam. The owner, a real estate investment company related to infamous Blackstone, is not happy, faces them in court, and loses.
The former datacenter of Verizon had been empty for a little over a year.
Currently owned by a real estate investment company called Loonie Propco, more about them later. The building is situated in an area that is going to be redeveloped, ie, hipsterized, urbanized, gentrified. Of course we are not against building houses, we just have our doubts about the number of actual affordable houses. (1)
The plans are still in an early stage, so for the particular plot, it might take some years before they even start demolishing. But demolition is definitely what will happen. [Read More]

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Berlin: Køpi is in danger!

By: fawda - October 31st, 2024  Filed under: News

The “owners” of Køpi project, Startezia GmbH (a shell company of Sanus AG), will take Køpi to court on 6 November 2024 , 10:15, at the Moabit Criminal Court (Turmstraße 91, 10559 Berlin). This is the same postbox company that evicted Køpi Wagenplatz in 2021.
Unfortunately we cannot give any more information on the situation as the project is in talks with our legal team, but we can tell you that the future of Køpi as we know it is under threat. [Read More]

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Rotterdam: Catullusweg stays!

By: fawda - September 1st, 2024  Filed under: News

We are really grateful to everyone that has helped out and stood by us, it truly means a lot!!
On the 22nd of august we got a letter for a speed court case for the eviction of Catullusweg 11.
In the morning of august 23rd we went to court, and we’re happy to announce that we won!!!
Even though we don’t have anything nice to say about the judicial system, we feel a weight taken off our shoulders knowing that in the coming time there won’t be any attempts of eviction by the state and its servants.
Now that this squat has more stability, we will put even more time into setting up a social space including a library, free shop, cinema/theater, community kitchen etc.

This is a callout to gather and organise together. Come by share your ideas and don’t don’t hesitate to join in on the fun! We’re looking forward to your ideas and initiatives. [Read More]

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Amsterdam: Vossiusstraat 16 under threat – Removal of Russian oligarch Arkady Volozh from the sanctions list

By: fawda - March 13th, 2024  Filed under: Communique, News

The Russian oligarch and founder of Yandex, Arkady Volozh, the owner of the squatted building Vossiusstraat 16, was removed from the European sanctions list on the 12th of March 2024. This is likely to lead to a new court case and the eviction of the squat.

This statement begins with a legal overview of the Vossiusstraat 16 case, and then summarises the changes that led to Volozh’s removal from the sanctions list. Finally, we present reasons why his removal from the list should not have taken place. [Read More]

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Ile-Saint-Denis: the Malvassé squat under eviction threat since mid-december

By: fawda - December 20th, 2023  Filed under: Communique, News

We are about twenty people who have been living in Malva since May 2022, a squatted building on Île Saint-Denis, at 62 avenue Jean Jaurès. The Malvassé has been under eviction threat since December 15, 2023 following a procedure that does not grant us any delay and abolishes the winter truce. (December 18, 2023 – the winter truce would be granted, “the owner having withdrawn his request to cancel the truce”).
Our place of residence is currently squatted, among others, by vulnerable people, families with children attending school in the same commune and in Saint-Denis. The neighbouring lots are also squatted by about sixty other very precarious people, including a dozen families with children, who also attend school on the Ile-Saint-Denis. [Read More]

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Athens: Steki Ano Kato Patission resquatted

By: fawda - December 10th, 2023  Filed under: Communique, News

[Update: During the resquat, 11 arrests were made on misdemeanor charges. The trial of the comrades has been postponed until February 13. The legal costs to be collected are many, your financial support is welcome.]

On saturday december 9, 2023, the Steki Ano Kato Patission was resquatted by 80 comrades. Then 250 people gathered in front to support the reoccupation. This gathering was attacked by cops and people were trapped in apartment buildings, in the adjacent dormitories and in the Steki itself. At the same time, teargas was thrown into cars, cops shouted at people that they would burn them alive, arrests were made, and people were beaten up. The cops also surrounded the Steki, teargas was thrown inside. People defended the Steki and kept it. There are seriously injured comrades, they are taken to the hospital. Around 19 people were arrested. On sunday 10, solidarity rally for those arrested during the Steki Ano-Kato Patission resquat at 11:00, Dikastiria (Evelpidon).
The Ano-Kato resquat took place on the nationwide day of action in solidarity with the squats, with a demonstration at Monastiraki in Athens. The attacks on our squats confirm once again that solidarity, self-organization and unmediated struggle are a formidable enemy for the state. The call out was made by Ano Kato Patission, ASP (Autonomous Polytechnic Steki), Evagelismos and Zizania.
STRUGGLES ARE NOT EMPTIED, IDEAS ARE NOT SEALED
SOLIDARITY WITH SQUATS

Statement from Steki Ano-Kato Patission:

We said that we are not leaving and we mean it [Read More]

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Amsterdam: news from Vossiusstraat 16

By: fawda - October 2nd, 2023  Filed under: Communique, News

Why there are no public events anymore, comment on Volozh’s statement against the war

Soon Vossiusstraat 16 will have existed for one year!
During the last few months, many changes happened. We won the court case and its appeal and this stability allowed us to make this house our home. While the doors of Vossiusstraat 16 were initially open, there have not been any public events in the past few months. This statement is here to explain why that is.
We will also comment on a statement issued by the owner of Vossiusstraat 16, Russian oligarch Arkady Volozh, where he claims he is against the war.

Why we don’t organize public events anymore

When the Vossisstraat 16 squat opened, we decided that it would be both a place to house ourselves and new people and a social space where anyone who wants can come and organise. Many discussions, benefit evenings, meetings, workshops, and more initiatives took place at Vossiusstraat over the span of several months. We really appreciate the fact that so many people were able to use the building and that Vossiusstraat 16 could be a place for political organising and for people to meet.
However, for the past few months, there have not been any public events organised at Vossiusstraat 16. This is a decision we took in response to the verdict of the appeals court. [Read More]

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Netherlands: Vogelvrij Newsletter #2

By: duiven - July 8th, 2023  Filed under: News


Vogelvrij brings you a bunch of news from squats all around the Netherlands. There is always space for more news in the newsletter, so mail us your updates or publish them on a open publishing platform such as Indymedia.nl, or send your statements to Squat.net, and announce your events on Radar.squat.net. [Read More]

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