2024-04-16 23:50:21
Thunderclap on the island of Oléron. Engaged in a standoff with Airbnb, the small community of Communes (CdC) has just obtained a new conviction from the American giant. The judicial court of La Rochelle (Charente-Maritime) sentenced him this Tuesday, April 16 to fine of 1.385 million euros. Never before seen (pronounced with a Californian accent) for this transnational whose headquarters are in San Francisco.
This decision was expected throughout France and well beyond. The dispute between the rental platform and the island of Oléron still concerns the non-payment of the tourist tax collected from its users. In June 2023, Airbnb, which then claimed “poor IT settings”, had already been fined 30,000 euros for the year 2021. A stay of proceedings had been pronounced for 2020. The island of Oléron requested nearly 30 million euros and has since appealed this decision, described as a “historic first victory”.
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