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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Clarizza Potoy

'Legalised Property Theft': Squatters Seize Murdered Uni Professor's Villa As Orphans Fight Back

The battle over murdered UC Berkeley professor Przemyslaw Jeziorski’s Berkeley home lays bare California’s controversial squatters’ rights regime and its human cost for his orphaned children. (Credit: berkeleyhaas/ Instagram)

A year after UC Berkeley professor Przemyslaw Jeziorski was murdered in Greece, his Berkeley villa is now occupied by alleged squatters, and his orphaned children are locked in a grinding legal fight that critics say shows how California's rules on 'legalised property theft' can leave grieving families powerless.

Jeziorski, a respected academic at the Haas School of Business, used to rent out the Berkeley property as an Airbnb. After his death last year, the home was meant to pass to his two children.

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