We have being denounced by a tenent of having changed the locks on our apartment thus locking him out. even though he requested to come out of the rental contract 3 months ahead of time. Unfortunately we do not have this request in writing. We arranged to meet the tenent on three occasions prior to us changing locks, to collect unpaid rent water and electricity bills but tenent failed to come to these meetings The tenent is also claiming we took two suitcases of his clothes and a plasma television. As rented property was in the city and we live in the country , and the failure of tenent to meet us we changed the locks on the date agreed having first checked that he was no longer using apartment. Three months later we get a denunicia stating we stole his property and locked him out. We are in shock as we never had any complaints from our tenent in fact we all got along fine. Now we are facing a court case for stealing, the tenent has asked for 23 months in prision for my husband or 1000 euros We are pesnioners, are about to engage a lawyer but are really very distressed as we have never had to deal with something like this before and in a foriegn country too