“Poor man, it’s lamentable”, “what a shame, no law to protect the owners”… Invited by Cyril Hanouna’s teams on “TPMP” on September 15, 2023, Cyril Coste revealed a story which met with indignation from viewers. Two days earlier, it was BFM Var who recounted his struggle of having seen his house in Saint-Jean-du-Var squatted and burned six times, while he camped in front of the premises of his insurer, who, according to him, refused to compensate him.
A year and a half later, this new pitying story of a small-owner-whose-life-wasted-by-squatters, which recalls that of a young couple from Essonnerepeated again a handful of days ago In Var Morning And Free Middayis largely damaged, advance Le Figaro.
Around twenty homes and several irregularities
We learn that the “poor” person in his 40s owns around twenty homes with surface areas declared in the leases much higher than in reality. Even more, some of his properties would be rented completely illegally. Like this house in Volonne (Haute-Provence) in which four tenants moved in last year, despite the ban and the formal notice on Cyril Coste by the municipality which asked him to install a water evacuation system worn to standards. In this case, Cyril Coste was sentenced at the end of January in Digne-les-Bains to four months in prison and a fine of 1,300 euros per tenant for death threats made against them, explains Le Figaro.
The daily spoke on this subject with a journalist from the M6 show “Arnaques”, who filmed a report on Cyril Coste. And in the case of her Var house, the journalist indicates that the squatters were offered 500 euros each to set the house on fire so that they would receive the insurance.
Largesse with the law of which Cyril Coste is visibly accustomed. Since 2009, this owner has had to deal with the law on several occasions for illegal work, breach of trust, fraud, or even driving with an uninsured vehicle, ends Le Figaro.