Society, Politics & Law
Occupying Turin: refugees breathe life into abandoned buildings of Olympic village, but authorities want them out
...course of the last decade, much to the distress of those who are living there. And British laws against squatting are even more restrictive. Refugees' occupation of state-owned territory would be a short story in Britain, more likely to end with a prison sentence, deportation – or both – than a school and a hair salon. A mutual tolerance of shared spaces has made it...
