Partouche is now trying to overturn the casino market in Lille
Last act in time of war between the group Partouche and mayor of Lille, the request for annulment of the contract with Barriere Construction for the hotel-casino Lille must be considered today by the Administrative Court . For the group Partouche , the wound is still open. Witness the hearing today, the tribunal must decide in the dispute which exists between the casino operator and mayor of Lille. To say that the family Partouche has not tasted the choice of its competitor Barrier Reef in September 2006 to manage the hotel-casino scheduled to open in spring 2009. Just last year, the founder of the group patriarch, Isidore Partouche , even said: “I live, I guarantee you that Martine Aubry do not revert to the elections next time. ” Since, if one ignores how have resulted in threats made by Mr Partouche , the lawyers took over. A motion to quash was filed by Mr. Jan-Jack Sebag, to void “the resolution of the city of Lille on the signing of the contract of public service delegation to the casino of Lille. I Sebag said: “We believe the questionable role of Ms. Da Silva (Deputy Mayor and Chair of the committee that chooses barrier), both representative of the mayor and supervisor of the expert chosen for artistic programming. The group Partouche also considers illegal, in the original tender, the financial claims of the town hall demanding indirectly, more than 15 percent of gross gaming casino manager of the future of Lille. Little optimistic on the chances of the request to succeed, counsel for the group Partouche already considering yesterday to appeal.
Laporte: A Paris judge decides to investigate a complaint of favoritism
The Dean of Judges of the Tribunal de Grande Instance in Paris decided to investigate a complaint filed against X for favoritism by the managers of a small casino in the Gironde which appears the name of the Secretary of State for Sport Bernard Laporte said on Friday a judicial source.
The Paris prosecutor’s office had requested on October 19 that there was no need to open a judicial inquiry, saying the offense was not established. He appealed the order of the Dean taken October 26, the source said.
The appeal, made on Monday will be considered by the investigating chamber of the Court of Appeal of Paris. If it determines the order in order, the oldest of the Judges will then open a criminal.
The complaint against X with a civil action was filed March 23, 2007 by the managers of the casino-Gujan Mestras (Gironde) who felt they met with undue hardship to obtain licenses to operate slot machines.
In the body of this complaint, the name of Bernard Laporte was quoted. Frédérique Ruggieri The complainant complained that Mr. Laporte had suggested two years earlier with his interpersonal Nicolas Sarkozy cons of shares in the institution.
In summer 2005, Ms. Ruggiero was trying to obtain the permits needed to open the casino.
In this case his lawyer Francis Terquem, said he filed Monday a complaint against Bernard Laporte for “attempted extortion.” This simple complaint, sent by post to the public prosecutor of Paris, was not recorded.
In an interview with L’Equipe Magazine October 20, Laporte had denied having tried to buy his interpersonal skills, referring to a joke.
‘She had asked me to arrange an interview with Nicolas Sarkozy (…) As I said messing + Give me 10% and I will have it that you go,’ “he had said.
The same day, the magazine revealed that Bernard Laporte was suspected by the National Directorate of Tax Investigations (DNEF) of “tax irregularities” in societies where it is associated.
According to L’Equipe Magazine, after a year-long investigation DNEF has uncovered a series of irregularities in societies where Bernard Laporte is associated with “double accounting, misappropriation of corporate assets, asset misappropriation, money transfers suspect , false invoices, moonlighting, cash withdrawals “.
Bernard Laporte has denied the charges against him.
Tax departments have since filed a complaint for violation of tax secrecy
Laporte: A Paris judge decides to investigate a complaint of favoritism
PARIS (AFP) – The Dean of Judges of the Tribunal de Grande Instance in Paris decided to investigate a complaint filed against X for favoritism by the managers of a small casino in the Gironde which appears the name of the Secretary of State for Sport Bernard Laporte said on Friday a judicial source.
The Paris prosecutor’s office had requested on October 19 that there was no need to open a judicial inquiry, saying the offense was not established. He appealed the order of the Dean taken October 26, the source said.
The appeal, made on Monday will be considered by the investigating chamber of the Court of Appeal of Paris. If it determines the order in order, the oldest of the Judges will then open a criminal.
The complaint against X with a civil action was filed March 23, 2007 by the managers of the casino-Gujan Mestras (Gironde) who felt they met with undue hardship to obtain licenses to operate slot machines.
In the body of this complaint, the name of Bernard Laporte was quoted. Frédérique Ruggieri The complainant complained that Mr. Laporte had suggested two years earlier with his interpersonal Nicolas Sarkozy cons of shares in the institution.
In summer 2005, Ms. Ruggiero was trying to obtain the permits needed to open the casino.
In this case his lawyer Francis Terquem, said he filed Monday a complaint against Bernard Laporte for “attempted extortion.” This simple complaint, sent by post to the public prosecutor of Paris, was not recorded.
In an interview with L’Equipe Magazine October 20, Laporte had denied having tried to buy his interpersonal skills, referring to a joke.
‘She had asked me to arrange an interview with Nicolas Sarkozy (…) As I said messing + Give me 10% and I will have it that you go,’ “he had said.
The same day, the magazine revealed that Bernard Laporte was suspected by the National Directorate of Tax Investigations (DNEF) of “tax irregularities” in societies where it is associated.
According to L’Equipe Magazine, after a year-long investigation DNEF has uncovered a series of irregularities in societies where Bernard Laporte is associated with “double accounting, misappropriation of corporate assets, asset misappropriation, money transfers suspect , false invoices, moonlighting, cash withdrawals “.
Bernard Laporte has denied the charges against him.
Tax departments have since filed a complaint for violation of tax secrecy.
Casino Barrière Euralille: opening last night, like clockwork
A year after announcing the arrival of Group Barrier in Lille, the gaming tables have welcomed their first fans last night. In half an hour, two hundred people crowded around tables already and restaurant.
“I just Tourcoing, I thought, well, it’s ten minutes, we’ll see what it looks like … “” We Lens, we usually go to Saint-Amand, but that there were fewer miles to go, “” I work right opposite, I wanted to see inside ” … Many onlookers last night at the Casino Barrière Euralille.
Regulars table game or novices, they were likely to want to enter, approach the nine tables, the sound of the ball on the roulette wheel, listening to the automatic sorter shuffle the cards … For those who were not wearing sneakers or sport pants, the dream became reality. Half an hour after the casino opened, two hundred people crowded around the dealers already.
Two hundred is precisely the number of daily entries hoped by the Groupe Barrière . And when eight hundred slot machines will be installed in early February. “People are nice, it’s rather chic”, commented a few experienced players, thrilled that these “bandits” are not there yet.
While opening night was a minor hit, the casino is expected to mainly take off in 2008. On an expected turnover of 100 million euros, he should pay back 15 per year to the city of Lille.
Digne les Bains Casino: The casino project comes up council
Accounting Chamber issued a negative opinion on the procedure
It is a good case in law! “Had assured about the convention of public service delegation (PSD) on the future operation of the casino, one of the lawyers appointed by the Paris office of the city the development of SOW.
There was a little less than a year, during the marathon city council had examined in detail and then vote, the convention of CSP with the company finances Atoll. But also to endorse the sale agreement of land to base the future casino, on the basis of 300 000 €, to another company owned by the same shareholders and whose vocation is also to carry out the bulk of the casino before rent at the Atoll Finance. Folder “concrete” attacked a few months later before the tribunal by Reeve Abollivier who believes that deliberation on the PSD is not consistent with that of March 2005. To date, the council had indeed voted to launch a process of competitive tendering for a DSP to “construct and operate a casino on a period of 18 years.” “A life too short to amortize heavy investments,” was held in negotiations with the mayor Atoll Finance Company, the only – the six companies involved before the issuance of specifications – to have made an offer in November 2005. “For us it was simply a variant that the future delegate was entitled to offer us!” , Said the mayor about this decision in December 2006 which thus enabled Atoll Finance, at least to its shareholders to absorb the building through another company that owns the casino walls.
Also seized by the prefect, the regional Chamber of Auditors, whose opinion on the matter will be presented Thursday night at the city council, said that “if the option of separating the operation and construction of the casino had been clearly mentioned in phase of competition, other providers were likely to bid on terms of service may be more advantageous. ” For now, the tribunal has not yet ruled on the legality of this decision but the mayor seems to have gone ahead and plans to launch a new DSP would be entrusted with drafting “a new law firm” as assured Mr. Gloaguen who could have done such a case a few months the city.
Suddenly, the opening of the temporary casino at Tonic Hotel before the end of the year, was postponed indefinitely while the company Atoll Finance does not despair of obtaining a permit for the spring. Prospective dealers, whose training was completed recently, will have to wait … just like the players.
Casino de Toulouse: a jackpot for mayor?
Controversy. the Barriere Group is late penalties to the city: he must pay € 250 000 or four times, as called me Léguevaques lawyer association anti-casino?
In this case, everyone plays a little “who loses, wins.” This could be the odd moral of the story of the new casino theater Lucien Barriere . The activities of chance are very lucrative for the casino operator but also for the state, pockets of taxes, and for the city, which affects one out of the games and the State fee (8.5% of sales of games, and restaurants bars). Besides the business tax.
The Temple game Ramler was granted by the city group Lucien Barriere , after bidding. Contract provides a very precise relationship between the municipality and the concessionaire. Penalties are provided for, a tidy sum of € 5 000 per day of delay from the date of commissioning originally scheduled. The institution should have opened its doors on April 1, 2007. But he has been put into operation Oct. 13 games for his part, and on November 4 for the theater.
At its meeting on 23 October, the council has extended the start date of benefits from 1 April to 23 August, taking into account the time of instruction of the building permit longer than expected (4 months and 23 days longer). The architecture of the new casino, built on stilts, had, in fact, include its location in a flood zone, while the discovery of the cavernous basement on the site and the implementation of the smoking ban should also be taken into account, according to Jean-Paul Escudier, elected municipal charge of the case.
A HISTORY OF DATES
The city disagrees with the Barrier Group on the end date for the delay. It retains the overall opening of the casino theater (Nov. 4), or 73 days. The casino operator favors the opening of the casino gaming and entertainment (13 October) or 51 days of penalties. At € 5 000 per day, the difference is not negligible, it increases from € 255 000 € to 365 000 in compensation.
“Given the delay in building permits and the discovery of underground corridors that made us lose 2-3 more weeks, we met our obligations” said David Parr, director of the casino.
Counsel Christopher Léguevaques threat him, to the Administrative Tribunal, as he did in the case of the Capitol parking, on behalf of the association in Toulouse Casino No thank you. ” He hopes the judge will allow the applicants to replace the city to require more than 1M € of penalties. The lawyer is based in effect on the single initial opening date of April 1.
A fish taste to the Barrier Group and rather cumbersome for the present municipality, if, perchance, the administrative judge sided with the lawyer troublemaker.
Andernos Casino: The casino wants more machines
The operating license of casino games The Miami expiring in the first quarter of 2008, Jacques Labansat, the director, took the municipality to apply for renewal. The City Council Thursday night gave a favorable opinion on this application, accepted almost unanimously, Jean-Robert Bos, left opposition, voted against.
This renewal shall be subject to public inquiry, the investigation commissioner has been appointed. After the agreement of the municipality, the casino company has filed a case in the prefecture on an extension of the park slots (25 for 75 more currently in service) and operating a blackjack game. All with a modification DEDS hours, which evraient be wider, offering a close to five hours. After the implementation of the game Texas Hold’em poker, casino activity should be increased if, of course, the ministry gives the green light. This can only serve the cause of the city, which annually draws of this structure is a recipe not negligible.
The Barriere group launches poker tournaments
The casino operator launches Barrière Poker Tournament. The group wants to become number one in France Poker and for that it will host in 2008 7 national and international tournaments and 700 players meetings at regional level.
The casino sector is down growth for three years and he counts on creating a new offer to restart itself. Pending any authorization to offer their Internet gambling, casinos are betting on poker, permitted in their establishments for some set. Next is Barrière Group announced its ambitions to this new offer that resonated strongly, particularly in the tench of younger customers.
Dominique Desseigne, president of the Barrier Group , is the number one spot in France of poker. He defeated and the group Partouche , the other staff of the casino sector in France. For his part, Sven Boinet, group managing director, explains that poker could eventually represent 15% of gross gaming revenue (GGR) of table games. Moreover, it highlights the synergies with other activities of the Barrier Group , the upscale hotels and restaurants.
The Barrier Group is launching the Barrière Poker Tournament in 2008 which will include nearly 700 tournaments at the regional level and a dozen national and even international tournaments. In addition, poker tables are already installed in twenty casinos group. Finally, a non-commercial site in the colors of this tournament will be created at the beginning of the year. It may become a merchant as soon as regulations evolve, provides Dominique Desseigne.
Casino Menton: Anti-tobacco – Casino Barrière is smoke cigarette box
The law on banning smoking in public places – which will come into force on 1 January next year in restaurants and casinos – accompanied by findings of any kind for “spare” in smokers. Among them, an innovative “Made in Sweden” which aims to avoid feeding the impression that the outlawing of the fans’ glowing blonde “… This solution to the Casino Barrière has a name: the Smoke Free Systems. A sort of phone booth, but for smokers. The games management of the institution will make available to its customers and its employees a whole new system that will allow smoking without disturbing other
A major challenge for an institution such as the Casino Barrière de Menton.
Unfair competition from Monaco
For after having already worked with, not without some bitterness, the entry into force of identity control (note: this is not the case in Monaco or Italy for example), the smoking ban may still cause swingeing cuts on the turnover. “The identity checks have cost us a drop of 8%. Some of our customers prefer the anonymity of Monaco …», grumble Mark Guglielmetti, director of the casino. “Fortunately the effect was anticipated and budgeted. But again, the smoking ban will disappear when you play in the Principality. It’s not fair but it’s like that, so for us to do with. ”
Besides the “smoke box”, customers of the casino can now smoke a little between two put on a deck specially designed for them. “We created an access door on the terrace which was planned a monitored space and heated for winter. This will be one of the most beautiful in France to smoke without interfering with the added bonus of overlooking the sea, “says ironically the director of the casino. “Otherwise, we also created an entirely non-smoking room to begin to educate our customers.”
Finally, the latest initiative Barrier Group , the distribution of free lollipops. Even football coaches have gotten, why not players?
Casino de Divonne: wrong password for one of the robbers (turning 9 December 2006)
Confused by the video surveillance and DNA traces, the delivery driver was arrested at Vaulx-en-Velin. But his lawyer would seek the annulment of the procedure
Yesterday morning, after two days of police custody in the premises of the BRB (Brigade repression of banditry) from Lyon, H. Bannour, delivery driver residing in Vaulx-en-Velin, has been presented to the magistrate’s TGI Bourg-en-Bresse and the JLD that indicted for armed robbery and imprisoned for participating in daring robbery Casino of Divonne-les-Bains December 9, 2006 .
That night, around 1 am, five hooded gunmen entering the gaming establishment famous for, in a few minutes, holding at bay the approximately 400 attendees, steal into the coffers of the hostesses booty valued at 56 000 euros, excluding a large consignment of cartons of cigarettes, and take flight aboard a Peugeot 406 stolen.
The vehicle with false plates according to the classic system of “doublet” will be found a few hours, abandoned in a ditch on the side of Mions (Rhone). It is both the review of video surveillance and traces of blood that have put police on the trail Bannour already involved in a case of use of counterfeit currency.
Identified as one of the players in the break-in that marks a professional, he has admitted to being the man you see on the pictures to break with a hammer the teller windows while carrying a 44 magnum. Handgun that he buried in a garden at the bottom of his parents’ home in the suburbs of Lyon.
Legal complications
By cons, no matter for the police to learn more about the identity of his accomplices. Code of silence obliges. An investigation eventually conducted smoothly and that, as part of the preliminary hearing, attempted to link with at least two other robberies, showing disturbing similarities, committed in the first quarter of 2006 to the detriment of the Casino de Divonne but also that of Hauteville.
The problem is that on Wednesday morning, the lawyer Bannour Lyons, Attorney David Metaxas, is particularly alarmed that the judge of Bourg-en-Bresse was able to examine his client on these facts prior which it was not seized by the Introductory Submission.
It would have required a residuary minimum for this specialist in criminal proceedings who intends to enter as soon as the trial chamber of the Court of Appeal of Lyon to file a request for revocation.
A second part to be played this time on the carpet court in the coming days.
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