This is not like USA were you shoot anyone who enters in your property.
If you harm this people you surely will have to face penal consequences.
Why? Because then, people will do the same with a small family which can not pay rent this month, after you increased the price to the double because you want to rent to tourists.
The solution is simple: use your properties. Would you let your car with the keys inside? No. Don't let your houses unused. It's is an offense to people who want to work and live. Properties shouldn't be a business nor a speculative means.
>They can only enter if you leave a window or door open for them to enter.
This is not the effective defense of squatting that you think it is.
And that's the problem.
I bet you'd see something wrong if I went into your wallet and took some cash, after all you're not using it right now
Sure, but that doesn't demonstrate inconsistency, that only demonstrates that different things are different and we can feel differently about them. The interesting response would not be the implied accusation of hypocrisy in the way you posed your question but rather simply "Why do you feel differently about this scenario?".
This happens all the time, it's called taxes
Do you care if the owner cares about you squatting in his property?
How is this not victim blaming? Next you'll tell me that a victim of sexual assault shouldn't have left their window open by wearing such a short dress, and they were asking for it anyway.
The point is, if you break anything to enter you used force and it's much worse.
But if it's your residence, your house, and at least you used once a year is "morada", and then they are intruders and they are breaking the law.
It doesn't matter if they change the lock or anything like this. If mossos doesn't do anything, which would amaze me, then call the other forces, like civil, local o nacional.
If you let a house unused all year long or during years, it's your problem. I don't know what's the purpose of owning a house and not using it, in this case, I would appreciate that someone breaks in to live there with pacifically, this people exist.
They can only enter if you leave a window or door open for them to enter.
If they break-in that is a criminal offence and the police will treat it as a buglary and arrest those in the property.
I used to squat here on Airstrip One in my twenties when I was homeless.
We did not squat in homes where people lived, We squatted in empty properties.
The utilities companies would reconnect the gas and electricy for us but only if we paid a substantial deposit.
I dont see anything wrong with squatting in empty homes.
It is the fault of society that creates homelessness and squatting is sometimes the only way to get a roof over your head.