Overview

• Authorities said the eviction was completed Sunday morning, with 33 people removed from the property and taken into custody.
• Police deployed Mobiele Eenheid units and used specialists after finding one person fixed with a pipe in concrete during the hours-long operation.
• The villa was re-occupied on Saturday, and officers began clearing it that evening after the group entered to reclaim the space.
• Participants said the occupation protested prolonged vacancy and marked 15 years since the anti-squatting law, citing housing pressure.
• Wassenaar’s mayor called squatting illegal and urged the owner to secure and bring the rijksmonument back into use as the municipality and police vowed to prevent a repeat.