Weekend Renters Find Corpse in Paris Garden of Airbnb Rental

Instead, it came to a macabre end on Saturday (local time) when they discovered a corpse in the garden at the back of the three-storey house in the suburb of Palaiseau, 16 kilometres south of downtown Paris.

But they found the woman’s corpse at the bottom of the garden where it opens onto woods, a police source said.

He says it was covered by tree branches that had been placed there deliberately.

The renters were questioned about their grisly find on Sunday.

A post mortem to determine the cause of death is expected to take place later today.

The group rented the seven-bedroom house for a party for the weekend. The group was planning to hold a party, media reports said.

There was no immediate information about who the Palaiseau property belongs to. Airbnb have not responded to media queries about whether the advert for the house would be maintained on its website, The Telegraph reported.

Airbnb is an online home-renting site, which since launching in 2008 has grown to over 2 million listings in 190 countries.

It has also seen a number of scandals involving theft, property damage and a range of sordid activities in hosts’ apartments.

The company paid almost €1.2 million (AU$1.8 million) to Paris city authorities in the last quarter of 2015.