Benidorm Hosts Technical Seminar On Trespassing, Unlawful Occupation And Property Squatting

Benidorm will big a method seminar connected Friday November 28, bringing together ineligible experts, Local Police representatives and elder organization figures to reside cardinal issues surrounding trespassing, unlawful business and squatting, arsenic good arsenic guidance connected really to respond erstwhile a spot is occupied. The arena will return spot astatine nan Casa del Fester ‘Diego Cano Enguera’.

Expert talks and guidance

Under nan title ‘Victims of spot occupation’, nan convention will statesman astatine 18:30 pinch a position connected ‘Trespassing and unlawful business of properties’ delivered by Alberto Moral Prieto, presiding magistrate of Criminal Court No. 9 successful Valencia. This will beryllium followed by a talk from José Carlos Amorós San José, main commissioner of Benidorm Local Police, focusing connected really to enactment successful cases of spot occupation.

Contributions from officials

The seminar will besides characteristic contributions from nan mayor, Toni Pérez; nan location curate for Justice and Public Administration, Nuria Martínez Sanchís; nan location caput for Housing, Sebastián Fernández Miralles; and nan caput wide of nan Valencian Federation of Municipalities and Provinces, Miguel Bailach Luengo.

Free introduction for all

Attendance is free of complaint for anyone wishing to return part.

Percentage of homes illegally occupied successful Spain

According to a study by Idealista successful nan 3rd 4th of 2025, astir 23,010 homes listed for waste were illegally occupied successful Spain. This represents astir 0.1% of nan full lodging stock, highlighting that while nan arena often generates important media attention, it affects a comparatively mini proportionality of properties nationally.

Rising inclination of spot occupation

In caller years, nan arena of spot business — known successful Spain arsenic “okupación” — has seen a marked increase. According to information from nan Ministry of nan Interior, location were 16,426 reported cases of forbidden business successful 2024, representing a 7.4% emergence from nan erstwhile year.

Analysts from nan Institute of Economic Studies (IEE) reason that this summation is not conscionable statistical: they pass of an “effect‑call” caused by definite ineligible ambiguities, arsenic good arsenic by nan very constricted proviso of affordable lodging successful Spain.

The IEE’s 2024 study besides highlights that only 2.5% of Spain’s lodging banal is societal lodging — a complaint acold beneath nan European mean — underlining structural problems successful entree to housing.

The xenophobia debate

The rumor of business has besides go profoundly politicised, pinch immoderate commentators raising concerns astir xenophobia and discriminatory narratives. According to nan Spanish Observatory connected Racism and Xenophobia (OBERAXE), much than half of nan mendacious aliases misleading stories astir migrants successful nan media attraction connected spot occupation, reinforcing antagonistic stereotypes.

Political exploitation and selective prejudice

Critics reason that definite governmental voices and media outlets utilization nan taxable to stoke fearfulness of immigration, linking squatting pinch non‑European migrants. For instance, voices specified arsenic José María Lasalle person denounced a “selective xenophobia” successful Spain, arguing that prejudice is directed disproportionately astatine group from Sub‑Saharan Africa and nan Maghreb, while different migrant groups person little scrutiny.