PARIS (AP) — With the Paris Olympic Games 100 days away, police carried out a large-scale eviction at France’s biggest squat in the south of the capital. Authorities, including dozens of gendarmes, cleared out the makeshift camp at an abandoned bus company headquarters in Vitry-sur-Seine on Wednesday. The camp had become home to about 450 […]
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French police evict hundreds from abandoned Paris warehouse ahead of Olympics
With the Paris Olympic Games 100 days away, police have carried out a large-scale eviction at France’s biggest squat in the south of the capital. Authorities, including dozens of gendarmes, cleared out the makeshift camp at an abandoned bus company headquarters in Vitry-sur-Seine on Wednesday. The camp had become home to about 450 migrants, with […]
Watch woodpecker evict starling that stole its nest by yanking it out with its beak
Remarkable footage captures the moment a red-headed woodpecker evicts a starling squatting in its nest by yanking it out of a tree trunk. Woodpeckers and starlings are cavity nesters, meaning they hollow out nesting holes rather than building them from scratch, but starlings often invade other birds’ nests and harass their owners. When Emily Tornga […]
This NY couple bought a $2M retirement dream home in Queens — only to find a squatter inside, who they’re now struggling to evict because he’s a ‘tenant’ under the law
‘A total nightmare’: This NY couple bought a $2M retirement dream home in Queens — only to find a squatter inside, who they’re now struggling to evict because he’s a ‘tenant’ under the law When Susana and Joseph Landa dropped $2 million on their dream home in Douglastown, Queens, they thought they were laying down […]
A landlord tried to evict a Kansas City woman. Instead, a jury awarded her $40,000
A Kansas City woman was awarded $40,000 after renting a home on the East Side where she was subjected to unsafe conditions, including living without electricity, a jury found. In 2017, Mary Smith and her then-teenage son became tenants in a two-bedroom house near 50th and The Paseo owned by Charles White and Sheldon Gray, […]
Tenants accuse local father-son landlords of violating judge’s order, trying to evict residents
Tenants of a local father-son landlord team are accusing them of violating a judge’s order by trying to evict residents while under state investigation. We first told you about Joseph Johns and Joseph Johns II in September. The pair own more than 50 homes in Fayette and Greene counties and is facing a number of […]