Den Bosch: Knoflook threatened with eviction

By: fawda - November 10th, 2025  Filed under: Communique, News

Knoflook has been located on the Havendijk in Den Bosch for almost 20 years. The building was purchased in 2001 by project developer Cornelis Huygens and was squatted in 2006 after years of vacancy and decay. Since then, Knoflook has provided space for residents, artists, starting bands and musicians, a vegan kitchen, a giveaway shop, information evenings, action groups and numerous youth initiatives.

Together we are the Knoflook!

The owner has filed a lawsuit against the residents for eviction, which would take place on December 4. An asbestos study was recently carried out. The owner now suddenly requests Knoflook and the residents to leave the building immediately and at impossibly short notice (before Tuesday, November 11). This is even before the court case. The Knoflook has started a campaign for the preservation of a free space in Den Bosch and against vacancy.

We claim our place in the city. Knoflook remains! [Read More]

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Brussels: Stop the eviction of the Zone Neutre collective

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

This Friday, October 17, we expect more than 100 police officers on the sidewalk of the building of the Zone Neutre collective to put its 70 residents, including 18 children, on the street when the sun rises. The building was empty and will remain empty for a long time. We will not accept this! Show your solidarity and come to Brussels to stop the deportations.

Since March, a group of undocumented people has been occupying a former building of the liberal union. The group of people is united behind the collective Zone Neutre and fights for the regularization of all, against racism and against closed borders and closed centers. Since the arrival of the collective, they have been organizing activities, film screenings, language lessons, lectures and more on the square in front of the building. A place that previously struggled with many social problems comes alive in the presence of the collective and becomes a place of encounter and solidarity.

The current owner of the building, Morad El Aisaoui, is a Dutch businessman and owner of several hotels in Amsterdam. He also plans to turn this building into a hotel, but does not yet have a permit or building plans for it. There are already three hotels on the square, one more luxurious than the other, while the district has barely 4% social housing. A new hotel is therefore far from what the residents of the district need, so the neighborhood decides to oppose gentrification and in solidarity with the struggle of the Zone Neutre. [Read More]

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Barcelona: Ca l’Espina Eviction Callout

By: fawda - September 24th, 2025  Filed under: Communique, News

Five years and 6 months have passed since the liberation of Ca l’Espina, a building located at Carrer d’Asturias nº 12, in the heart of Gràcia, Barcelona. A gentrified neighborhood we no longer recognize, sold out to tourism and speculation, .
With great anger and sadness we have received the eviction date, October 2, 2025. The owner, Bojous, S.L., along with the Mossos d’Esquadra, will once again militarize the neighborhood to try to kick us out of our home.
Throughout these years, we have challenged the logic imposed by capital, establishing mutual aid as both an essential and everyday practice. It has been a space where we’ve grown both individually and collectively, where we’ve strengthened bonds that enable us to fight back and challenge the established order. It has been and still is the place where we continue to gather strength to resist the eviction.
Aware of the diversity of lived experiences, of diverse bodies and abilities, and with the aim of continuing to question and destroy systems of domination, we call for solidarity in all its forms.
Firm in our commitment to the anarchist struggle and knowing that actions have consequences, we understand that Ca l’Espina is much more than just a building, and that the collective extends far beyond those who live within its walls. They have chosen to come for us, and we will respond. We will not let this eviction go unpunished, and we will help grow our collective imagination through direct action. [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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Cáceres: days of resistance and support in the face of the threat of eviction of the CSOA La Muela

By: fawda - November 21st, 2024  Filed under: Communique, News

Days of resistance from 21 to 25 November. We will have debates, workshops, open mic, jam session, reflections on the future of space, as well as the collaboration of sister spaces such as the CSOA La Algarroba Negra. We encourage you all to participate and show support for CSOA La Muela!

The rehabilitated space that is now the CSOA La Muela began to be self-managed at the beginning of 2024, although the collective project had begun a year earlier. After an exhaustive search we found a plot in the Ribera del Marco, a place that, like many other plots in the area, was expropriated by the City Council of Cáceres more than a decade ago. [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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Montreuil: La Baudrière under eviction threat from august 21st

By: fawda - August 17th, 2023  Filed under: Communique, News

Why defend La Baudrière

La Baudrière is an anarcha-feminist queer* squat that opened in November 2021 in Montreuil (a city located in Paris’ suburbs). A lot of people meet here, they come for a few hours, a few days or a few weeks. They came there to live, to learn, to party, to organize. La Baudrière is full of their memories.
Now, eviction is looming, and for us, who use this place in so many different ways, it is time for us to defend this space.
We are calling any non-cis het men to colelctively defend La Baudrière, from the 21st of August onwards.

Here are some of the reasons why we want to resist. Down with the landlords and the evictors, down with the gentrifiers ! [Read More]

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Barcelona: solidarity with Ca l’Espina

By: fawda - January 18th, 2022  Filed under: Communique, News

Ca l’Espina, a squatted block in the middle of the posh neighborhood of Gracia and resisting it for 2 years, is in danger of eviction. On Monday, the deadline that puts the building at risk began.

After 8 trials, exorbitant expenses, the eviction of a flat, its reoccupation and the eviction of the social centre, we are still here and we are not going to leave.

Comrades, we once again acclaim solidarity as a weapon and tool to combat capital. Because if they evict a block, we squat 100. We encourage you to take decentralised actions so that the foundations and structures of this rotten system continue to shake.

Against tourism, speculation, gentrification and the precariousness of life. Let the streets tremble, for an abolition of private property and a collectivization of housing. [Read More]

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Thessaloniki: 34 years are not enough. Hands off our squat! Solidarity week with Biologica squat

By: fawda - December 24th, 2021  Filed under: Communique, News

Dear comrades

We are reaching out to fellow squats, collectives, autonomous groups and comrades, to inform and raise awareness about the current situation concerning the recent squat eviction wave in Greece, as well as the new “anti-education” laws that allow policing in public education institutions.

As you may already know the “occupied space at Biology school of Thessaloniki”, one of the oldest squats in Greece, is threatened with eviction. We take this threat seriously, as it is based on solid information, that has been published by the Greek Ministry of Digital Governance and is about to be completed within 16 months (from September 16th, 2021), starting with the demolition of walls within 4 months (until January 2022). As christmas holidays are around the corner, in combination with recent targeted statements, by the vice minister of education Mr Sirigos, we consider this period, dangerous for possible eviction and immediate demolition of the internal walls of the squat. In the past, we have witnessed evictions taking place during holidays, as it is a known government tactic to act, when many students and comrades are away from big cities, in order to avoid resistance. [Read More]

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Brussels: call out, imminent eviction KBC occupation

By: fawda - December 13th, 2021  Filed under: Communique, News

Solidarity rally, Monday 13 December, 14:00
Press release of the Collective Zone Neutre, KBC Occupation

Since last July, thousands of refugees are blocked in Belarus at the gates of Poland. Pushed on one side by the Belarusian forces and on the other by the Polish authorities, without any European intervention to put an end to this tragedy. Hundreds of migrants find themselves in the streets of Brussels, without any help or resources from the competent authorities.
In recent years, several organizations have had to file a series of lawsuits against illegal instructions or practices of the Belgian state in terms of reception. While undocumented citizens and activists take care of finding housing solutions for hundreds of migrants, through actions of occupation of empty houses. While political administrators wash their hands of it. [Read More]

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Wuppertal: The Osterholz forest and occupation is under threat of eviction and uprooting

By: fawda - December 10th, 2021  Filed under: Communique, News

Tension is rising in the beautiful Osterholz forest on the city limits of Wuppertal and Haan. The Administrative Court of Düsseldorf has rejected the complaint of local residents against the immediate enforcement of the planning approval process. This means that we have to expect an eviction of the occupation and uprooting of the forest even more.

According to the administrative court, the local residents “are only entitled to file a complaint with regard to their own rights; they cannot successfully assert concerns of the general public, such as the general importance of the forest for the environment,” and it continues: “The avoidance of negative effects on the climate is one of the concerns to be taken into account, but not all other interests must necessarily be subordinated to it.” [Read More]

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Berlin: Illegal eviction of Køpi wagenplatz. Supposed owner gave falsified signature in court. Nevertheless eviction plan goes ahead.

By: fawda - October 8th, 2021  Filed under: Communique, News

On the 8th of October 2021 we gave a press conference in front of Köpi. Read our statement:

Just a week before the eviction of the Køpi wagenplatz we received the report from the official investigator for signature verificationthat the signature presented at the trial in May 2021 by the supposed owner Yervand Chuckhajyan of the postbox company Startezia GmbH differs from previous signatures and is therefore false.

The falsification, and the fact no one ever saw Mr Chuckhajyan, reinforces our suspicion that the supposed owner of this postbox company does in fact not represent the company and is actually another fraud of the real owner of this postbox company, Siegried Nelhs of SANUS AG.

At the trial also the judge Claudia Wolter noticed the different signatures, criticized the supposed owner for not being present at the trial and questioned his lawyers about their relationship with their client. Nevertheless the judge decided that if Startezia GmbH pays a security deposit of 200.000€ the eviction can go ahead even before our appeal hearing. Again we see that justice is not blind, that the court favours suspicious anonymous postbox companies with enough money over the lives, homes and futures of dozens of people. [Read More]

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