"‘No blacks’ says French rental agency", 28 Dec 2016

A French real estate agency that published a home rental advertisement stating "no blacks" were welcome, has drawn fire...The racial preference was included in the technical notes on a home rental announcement from a real estate agency...in the ...suburbs of Paris.  A potential renter saw the ad in late November and shared it on Twitter...[T]he matter made it to the front pages of French news sites, and prompted an apology from the real estate company, Laforet...The real estate agency’s head...told France Info that...the...employee who wrote the ad no longer works for the company, adding that she had simply “transcribed without knowing” what the house owner had said...France’s Defender of Rights...said...it had launched an investigation.