Venezuela – A group of about 20 homeless people stormed into a synagogue Monday in Caracas, arguing that the building had been abandoned and they needed a home.
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The three-storey Beth Abraham synagogue in the Alta Florida neighbourhood of the Venezuelan capital has been undergoing renovation for the last two years, said representatives of Venezuela’s Jewish community.
In a recent clash with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Jewish groups including the Simon Wiesenthal Centre denounced what they saw as state anti-Semitism in the South American country.
Oh right, “squatters” just like the “freedom fighters” in Egypt, LIbya and Syria.
Just as the Arabs are wrongfully trying to take away Israeli territory from the Israelis these guys have learned from the Arabs and are wrongfully trying to take away Jewish property away from the Jews in Venezuela.
Where is the police?
Just so people understand…
Chavez’s socialist law is that if a house is indeed abandoned, that homeless people can move in and take ownership.
(for that reason, many people hire caretakers to live in their vacation homes, so that they don’t get “invaded”.)
In this case, the people broke the lock, and put on their own, as it is shown in the video, and “decided” that it was abandoned. possibly because it was under construction, so people were probably not living in the house upstairs as they usually are. That is where the homeless people went, not downstairs in the Shul area.
But the shul was still functioning.
The police came to convince the people to leave.
“Squatter” law is different in a socialist country.
I fear for our brothers and sisters in Venezuela and other South American countries.
It is similar to stupid EU squatter laws which especially in London the property owners loose millions of £’s to try to get the squatters out. Most of them are from the
eastern part of Europe. When they finally get a court order and bailiff six months down the road the place is destroyed, all wires and copper are torn out and they move to the next property