According to the local media, it took six weeks and 2.000 pounds worth of court fees to evict a Romanian family from a house in Tottenham.
In UK there are many cases of uninhabited houses or buildings which are occupied by individuals without the permission nor the knowledge of the owners, and according to the London police, most of the squatters are not British.
“Over the past six months since the legislation changed, 41 out of the 92 people indicted or prosecuted were from Romania, 16 from Poland and 13 from UK, according to BBC
The so-called squatters of Romanian citizenship have decisively contributed to the legislation change in the UK, meant to protect the owners from the abusive occupancy of their houses. In August 2011, a group of Roma occupied and devastated the London house of an employee from the Immigration office, while the woman was on vacation.