Duclay, from Toulouse in south-west France, told the couple, who had brought drinks with them, that they were on private property and asked them to leave. “But they said, ‘No, no, it’s just water. Don’t worry, we’ll make the most of it,” he told TV channel TF1. Duclay’s plight is increasingly common in a country where pool squatting is described by The Midi Dispatchthe South West regional daily, as a “national sport”. Police get about 10 to 15 calls a day across the country reporting strangers diving into someone else’s pool, according to
