I wonder what this “activist” did to earn himself Europol attention. At least before the world went insane, that would only happen for serious crimes.
[1] https://theconversation.com/explainer-what-is-an-interpol-re...
[2] https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/weaponizing-inte...
If so, on which basis do you ironically call squatting a "terrible crime"?
Squatters in your house in France means that you you have zero rights on this place until a lengthy process gives it back to you, ruined. You are then expected to be grateful and can forget about any reimbursement from the poor people who stole your property.
But the law allowed him, as a good landlord, to work on the outside of the house, for the good of his tenants. So he did.
He installed security cameras, and reported every minor infraction of the squatters to the police. The police loved it, and duly did everything. Oh look, a cm of your wheel is parked outside the allowed boundary. That's a ticket. Of course he duly tested the very loud alarm every evening, to make sure it works.
He did a paint job, first removing the old paint with the noisiest dustiest old tools he could find, then painting it in an old ugly pink he found on a flea market somewhere. Then decided the quality wasn't good and removed the paint again. One day, the squatters had enough and actually went to a court to demand he let their poor baby sleep. Judge just laughed, and told them all work happened before 22:00 so he was in his right.
Squatters ran away after a few months, which supposedly is a happy outcome, at least compared to what the law could do for him.
Sure, it's a crime, but it's a relatively minor one. I suppose if you were the victim you'd have a different point of view.
This can happen to the slumlord (who will then send someone to beat up the squatters), to the big capitalist (who will go through the courts and win) and to smalltime owners where that is maybe their family home or future retirement apartment (who will suffer the most).
Homelessness/lack of housing is a problem, but squatting is in most cases not the right solution.
Then starts a possibly very long process to have them evicted/ If they have a child you are basically screwed and won't be able to get your property back. Or you will wait months/years and get a ruin back.
Please give your opinion about squatting primary and secondary homes of people. Who worked to buy them and have zero rights afterwards, when a colony of parasites come and destroy their belongings.
This is what happens in France.
Sure, ProtonMail and its current operators could opt to stop operating in such jurisdictions, but usually it's too late for that when you get the [secret] court order, because if you refuse the operators personally are quickly found in contempt of court (or whatever other bad legal circumstance), and eventually that can lead to similar InterPol/EuroPol (other MLAT) warrants.
Vandalising banks is stupid and also an efficient way to make powerful people dislike you.
Unfortunately this sort of extremist group is harmful to people and organisations genuinely trying to do something for the environment.
https://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/file_attachm...
https://ourworldindata.org/co2-by-income-region#emissions-by...