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 A grandiose £15million mansion in one of Britain's most expensive and exclusive streets has been taken over by squatters who plan to transform it into a homeless shleter. 
 
 Among the campaigners was said to be Lauri Love, who is accused of hacking into the computer systems belonging to US agencies, including the FBI and NASA. 
 
 Mr Love, who faces up to 99 years in prison if extradited to the US, has apparently since left the Eaton Square property, in posh Belgravia, London. 
 
 The group have been in the Grade II listed building for three days. 
 
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 It is understood to have lain empty since Russian oligarch Andrey Goncharenko bought it in 2014. 
 
 But the squatters say they plan to transform the former Spanish school into a shelter for the homeless. 
 
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 Above the front door is a banner which reads: "USA ANTI-GOVERNMENT IN EXILE". 
 
 A black flag, being flown for a pole, is adorned with the words, "Antifaschistische Aktion," an anti-fascist network from Europe. 
 
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 Mr Love, 32, who has Asperger syndrome was reportedly staying in the squat. However, one of the group at the house said he was no longer at the property. 
 
 He is currently preparing an appeal against his extradition to the US, which was signed by Home Secretary Amber Rudd in November. 
 
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 People working near the huge mansion today said they saw some members of the group leaving this morning while others remained inside. 
 
 A doorman for a neighbouring townhouse, who wished not to be named, said a notice had been tapped to the front door by a bailiff firm. 
 
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 He said: "A little later one of them came out a side window and took the notice off and went back inside." 
 
 Last night Mr Love and members of the group explored the huge building and music played in speakers late into the night. 
 
 The house was built around 1825 by the Grosvenor family and was up until recently the home of the Instituto Cervantes of London, the Spanish cultural centre, which has now moved to The Strand. ||||| By Jamal Thalji, Michael Kruse and Emily Nipps, Times Staff Writers 
 
 In Print: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 
 
 ST. PETERSBURG — A local website hawking videos of half-naked women pummeling homeless men has caught the attention of St. Petersburg police. 
 
 Police say they are investigating Shefights.net to see if those arranging, filming and selling the fights — and paying the homeless to be assaulted — are doing anything illegal. 
 
 "Anything involving bodily harm to someone invites scrutiny to see if any laws have been broken," said police spokesman Mike Puetz. The investigation has been going on for months. 
 
 The St. Petersburg Times on Tuesday published a story about a lawsuit that has been filed against Shefights.net. The Southern Legal Counsel filed the suit on behalf of two homeless men who appeared in videos. 
 
 The suit alleges that the organizers recruited and paid homeless men to be tied and beaten on camera by women dressed in skimpy athletic tops and bottoms — or in the more expensive videos, even less clothing than that. 
 
 The men said they were paid $25 to be whipped and $50 to be beaten. They could not fight back and had to sign releases, they said. The suit seeks damages and a court order to stop the fights. 
 
 Neil Chonin, director of litigation for the Southern Legal Counsel, said the website is another in a series of setbacks suffered by the city's homeless. In 2007, the city came under fire for slashing homeless tents. Last year the City Council banned panhandling on street corners. 
 
 "All around the county, but particularly in St. Petersburg, they get trespassed, they get their property taken — in my mind, it's a further extension of how homeless people are being exploited," Chonin said. "Nobody cares about them. 
 
 According to the suit, 20-year-old Kyle Shaw was homeless when he agreed in January to let a woman beat him for 12 minutes for $50. He did it again in February. Both times, he said, his hands were bound. Shaw said he suffered broken ribs, a dislocated arm and a dislocated jaw. He said he didn't know the video of his assault would be sold online and in one case he wasn't even paid. 
 
 Another homeless man, 37-year-old George Grayson, alleged in the suit that he was offered the same deal: 12 minutes of violence for $50. Grayson, who has Asperger's syndrome, said he was desperate for money. 
 
 Homeless advocates fear the website is exploiting the most vulnerable — mentally, physically and economically. 
 
 "(They've) found people who were so vulnerable that the act of making this decision was compromised by a disability," said National Coalition for the Homeless executive director Neil Donovan. "That's pretty sick." 
 
 The civil suit was filed against Jeff Williams of Shefights.net, J.P. Florida Productions, "Cindy Doe" and "Jane Does 1-5." Williams told the Times that he plans to countersue. A message on Shefights.net said media accounts of the website are inaccurate. 
 
 "We won't be intimidated," the message said, "and these allegations against us will be disproved."
– A group of squatters has seized an empty property on one of Britain's "most expensive and exclusive streets" and turned it into a homeless shelter, the Telegraph reports. According to the Guardian, the five-story, $19 million home was purchased by a Russian oligarch in 2014 but is believed to have sat unused since. The Autonomous Nation of Anarchist Libertarians, or ANAL, got into the home through an open window on Monday. They say they're currently housing 25 or so people who had been sleeping on the street. The nearly 200-year-old house features a spiral staircase, polished floors, and multiple "hand-carved" fireplaces. The squatters have added a projector for movie nights, portable cookers, and a shop with free clothes. A recent count found approximately 4,000 people sleeping on the streets of London. Another count found more than 200,000 homes that have been empty for more than half a year. ANAL calls that an "injustice." The group says it researched the home before moving in, discovering it was purchased by Russian oligarch Andrey Goncharenko, who has bought four fancy houses in London over the past three years. One squatter tells the Telegraph they "figured the damage caused to him compared to the gains for the homeless community is nothing." The squatter says the house could mean the difference between life and death for homeless people during freezing winter weather. The Mirror has photos from inside the home prior to its new life as a homeless shelter.