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One British man's crusade against illegal billboards in France
Tony Smith led a community effort to remove more than 1,000 illegal billboards from roadsides and parks
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City in south-west France takes property owner to court for €100,000
The case is the latest move by authorities in France against short-term rental landlords
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Paris joins Marseille in banning key boxes in bid to stop illegal tourist lets
‘Public space cannot be privatised,’ says the mayor of Paris Centre, in a new rental crackdown
Tenant owes landlord €46k in ‘Airbnb rent’
A tenant who sublet her Paris property on rentals website Airbnb without proper consent has been ordered to pay her landlord all the money she received in illegal rents.

The tenant was found to have breached a clause in her rental lease, and was ordered to pay €46,000 plus €1,000 damages. The court also ordered that she should be evicted.