21.   The government vowed to evict the squatters.

22.   The government won a court order Tuesday allowing them to evict the squatters Thursday, and most packed up their belongings and left.

23.   Those offenses, however, are hard to prove, carry lighter penalties and do not automatically empower lawmen to evict squatters.

24.   Violence broke out when police arrived to evict the squatters, who threw stones, bottles and other objects.

25.   While seeking ways to deal with the issue of buildings standing idle, the Catalan regional government says it must evict squatters to ensure respect for private property rights.

26.   Frontier guards were sent to the scene to evict the squatters who said they would not put up resistance.

27.   A first police intervention the previous week had had no effect, with the result that local residents threatened to stop paying rates unless the squatters were evicted.

28.   The city authorities long ago gave up evicting illegal squatters from plots and abandoned buildings.

29.   The government has been trying to evict the squatters through court actions but they have been delayed by a series of lengthy appeals.