ST GALLEN – An employee of the casino in St Gallen has flown more than 30,000 francs in the trunk of the institution. The Swiss 24-year commitment as “cash desk supervisor, was arrested overnight Tuesday to Wednesday in the casino.
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He was caught red-handed by officers from the security of the institution. The man admitted his actions. The spokesman of the police St. Gallen Hans Peter Eugster confirmed information from the “St. Galler Tagblatt. The employee would have manipulated a computer system in order to take the money in the trunk of the casino
Charles Pasqua to quash the investigation into the authorization to operate the casino in Annemasse (Haute-Savoie) in 1994, where he faces an indictment for “corruption” at be learned from his lawyer, Lef Forster.
The decision of the Board of Education was to be taken under advisement.
This case is one of three on which the Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR) has filed suit on June 1 against former interior minister.
Ms. Forster argues that the investigating judge Philippe Courroye, who conducted the initial investigations into the casino in Annemasse, was improperly instructed, out of his gripe and then he was not legally competent.
Charles Pasqua, 77, is suspected of having granted permission in March 1994 of the casino operation to Robert Feliciaggi, one of his relatives in exchange for financing his campaign for European elections in 1999.
Beaten in last June’s European, Charles Pasqua has lost the immunity that prevented any judicial supervision or in detention. He could return after the senatorial elections of 26 September, where he plans to stand in the Hauts-de-Seine.
Casino Ribeauvillé, which was opened before the end of September, will finally be working by January 2005. This is the second setback in a year for this facility built and ready for use.
New turn of events in the series of casino Ribeauvillé. The hotel was welcoming its first customers between 15 and 30 September. But the prefecture of the Haut-Rhin has revealed that the opening will be from 1 January. Incredible story of a casino that defrays already chronicled …
We remember that in late 2003, when the establishment had just built a crack had appeared in the record: only one municipality could collect revenue from a casino, not a community of Commons, as was the Ribeauvillé case. The Alsatians have therefore elected mobilized and succeeded in passing an amendment to the law on decentralization, in late July 2004. With this new provision, the problem was solved. Everyone welcomed the successful outcome of the case, stand by for several months. During August, the Minister of Interior signed the authorization to open. Jacques Leveque, facility director, announced a commissioning for end of September. It was missing the green light from the prefect of Haut-Rhin.
But in the prefecture, the case was carefully studied and a detail of the utmost importance was discovered. The implementing decree, which has just been published following the passage of the law on decentralization, says now that the new provision is only applicable from 1 January 2005.
The opening of the casino is not called no question, but still delayed by several months. “The establishment was ready to go. We hired and trained about thirty people, “said Jacques Leveque.
Faster than the music
Faced with this further delay, local officials trying to downplay. “It does not surprise us too. Anyway, we did not expect the casino revenues in our budget estimates, “said Peter Adolph, chairman of the Commons community Ribeauvillé.
Jean-Louis Christ, the deputy mayor of Ribeauvillé says that “in the euphoria, some have wanted to go faster than the music and forgot that the passage of a law is followed by an enforcement decree. Personally I have always been cautious … “The main concern is the fate of the staff, who has been having adventures. “As we were originally to open in early 2004, employees were hired a year ago. Given the uncertainty of the opening, we proposed to each of the missions in other casinos ACCOR. And some went to work in Switzerland, in Sainte-Maxime or Niederbronn. Others have not accepted, “explains Jacques Leveque.
A month ago, with the promise of an opening in September, workers were repatriated to Ribeauvillé. New ones were recruited. But all will have to wait again … By January, they will complete their training and will then greet customers around the three rollers and three English black jack … ready!
The Society of Hotels and Casino de Deauville, gently rising power. The group’s turnover rose by 9.8% to 61.09 million euros in the third quarter (May-July), after rising 6.4% in the first half. The activity was supported by the good performance of the cluster casinos (+10.3%), always carried by the 150 new slots casino opened in Enghien, improving the division accommodation (+5.8% ), despite the closure of the relay Golden Square, and the rise of the restoration (+11.6%).
Over nine months, the turnover of hotels and casinos of Deauville spring 156.22 million or 7.7% more than during the same period last year.
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By assigning MGM, billionaire turned his back on Hollywood
New York – At 87 years, the American billionaire Kirk Kerkorian turns his back on Hollywood by selling the legendary MGM film studios to place your bets on Las Vegas, which he helped to become the world capital of the game selling on Monday MGM to a consortium led by Sony, Kirk Kerkorian ended his tumultuous history with the studios it acquired in 1969 and which he had separated three times already.
Studio’s most prestigious film history, who have won 200 Oscars in 80 years of existence, but are a mere shadow of themselves for several decades. Kerkorian is partly responsible for orchestrating the decline of many changes in hand and sold the bulk of the treasures of his catalog – including about 4,100 titles, however, survive, notably the series of James Bond and Pink Panther.
Turning away from Hollywood, this self-made man, the incarnation of the American Dream, put on another great love of his life: Las Vegas, capital of the world game that he is one of the main architects.
The son of Armenian immigrants, Kerkorian Kirk was born June 6, 1917 in Fresno, California. He began to earn his life nine years by selling newspapers and left school at 13 years to become a professional boxer and pilot, participating in missions extremely dangerous for the Royal Air Force during the Second World War .
He then became owner of a private aircraft company, before driving a formidable operation of real estate speculation was going to sit his fortune. In 1962, Kerkorian bought into effect just over 32 hectares of land in Las Vegas for less than one million U.S. dollars. He built three casino hotels that are at the time the largest in the world and contributes to the development of Las Vegas by focusing on customers rather than just hardcore gamers, but extended to businessmen and families .
His group has experienced a tragic moment in 1980 when the MGM Grand Hotel burned down, killing 85 people and injuring hundreds more. The hotel was quickly rebuilt.
Besides the huge MGM Grand, the Mecca of boxing matches prestigious group controls 10 facilities, including the Bellagio, the most famous hotel-casino in Sin City.
Today, anyone who was nicknamed “the lion alone” for his discretion and his face impassive at the head of the 41st richest man in the United States and weighs at least 3.4 billion. Married three times, his last divorce made the headlines when his ex-wife Lisa has continued to require 3.8 million per year of parental benefits for her daughter whom Kirk Kerkorian says, DNA testing at the support, not to be the father.
Democrat Kerkorian publicly supported Democrat John Kerry in the November presidential election and, far from retiring, seems determined to make the most of a real gambling fever raging in the U.S. for over a year and boom in Las Vegas.
The body of a man found on the town of Anglet (Pyrenees Atlantiques) could be that of a young 19 year old from Biarritz, missing since early September, officials said Thursday a source close to the investigation. An autopsy was performed in the hours that followed the discovery of the body and several factors suggest that this is a homicide, it was said the same source. The body in advanced state of decomposition was found Friday by a hiker in the bushes at the edge of the forest Pignada, on the town of Anglet, between Biarritz and Bayonne. It is likely that this is a young Biarritz, municipal employee at the casino for which an appeal was launched to witness, says one of the source. DNA tests are expected to confirm this thesis while the condition of the body and clothing did not allow, at first, to establish with certainty the identity of the person.
The hotel-casino in the city must be transformed into a tourist complex of monuments. Two associations are mobilizing against the project, conducted without real consultation with the people and damaging the environment. The hotel-casino in the city must be transformed into a tourist complex of monuments. Two associations are mobilizing against the project, conducted without real consultation with the people and damaging the environment.
Nothing goes in Fecamp! Around the proposed new hotel-casino, everyone shows his openness to dialogue, but nobody is talking about. Attac-Fecamp and the Association for Ecology Region Fecamp (Écorefe) criticize the lack of transparency of the project and try to prevent it, as it stands. The town claims to have communicated a lot and now relies on court decisions to move forward. Emerald Finally, the casino operator tenant of the premises since 1999, believes that it is the town hall to play and conflict resolution to file their building permits.
The reason for this outburst of passions is to look on the waterfront, which is a small casino, built in 1860, flanked by a pool out of service. Behind, on the slope down from the cliff lies a municipal camping very popular for its views over the sea As an extension of the waterfront, the long white cliff fell into the sea. The casino, a bit outdated, that occupies the 112th place on the 180 French schools. Also, when in September 1999 the City Council sign an agreement to operate the site in favor of Emerald , the market is clear: the casino operator agrees to invest in rebuilding the casino, and add an upscale hotel and especially with the cost of work necessary to support the security of the cliff. In exchange for the surrender of the relevant land, the price of one euro.
Écorefe outcry to the association, for which land would be sold off: “This site, which is the most beautiful heritage of the city, could be a gold mine for the town instead of being sold for nothing,” ton Meynier Michel, president of the association. For him, “the site, which actually corresponds to the arrival of a geological fault very important, remains unstable and could be destabilized by the work.” It’s that time of the first appeal before the Administrative Court in February 2003 to challenge the conditions of sale. Therefore, the mayor stops by itself the sales process, before returning to the charge in June 2004. Same reaction on the part of Écorefe, namely a second appeal before the Administrative Court to prevent the sale of public lands in the pool and casino. With the added bonus, the launch of a petition signed by nearly 500 Fécampois. The socialist mayor of the city, Patrick Jane, believes that “the way it was written, everybody [could] the sign.”
This time, no turning back of the hall, Patrick Jane is determined to go through with the procedure. “It’s been a year since we try to talk without results, including through public meetings. Now, we want to go to court. So yes, we are in a stalemate, but everyone will assume his responsibilities … Me, I protect the interests of the city. The lack of dialogue, that’s the main complaint of Attac-Fecamp against the municipality. In a letter to the tribunal, the association argues that the mayor “has never felt obliged to inform the public of the existence of a proposed hotel-casino by summer 2003.” Admittedly, the first local magistrate has proposed setting up a technical committee with, among other experts, chosen by both architects and Écorefe Attac. “A committee of specialists who have just served to mask even the project to the people,” says Jacques Lelièvre, co-chair of Attac-Fecamp. Project, there would in fact only “draft” as Patrick Jane, whose City Council has already “rejected three versions in six years, guaranteeing its independence vis-à-vis the group Emerald . ” Formerly owned by Credit Lyonnais, now in the hands of Norman construction group Le Foll, Emerald operates eight casinos in France, mainly in the north and east. According to the municipality, any present or future contract is not binding Le Foll, specializing in the construction of roads in the town of Fecamp.
Eric Lecoquierre, CEO of Emerald , unconvincingly says he wants to make the new hotel-casino “no economic interests in order to fulfill [its] obligations and help the region.” The system should still get the annual turnover of EUR 3.7 million to a range between 12 and 20 million euros. The share paid to the city, now close to one million euros, on a municipal budget of 33 million euros, should evolve in the same proportions, not including eighty hires planned to turn the new building. “A nine-story monster that climbs the cliff,” Michel Meynier, referring to the hotel part of the whole, the new casino should not exceed four floors of other buildings on the seafront
Nothing goes in Fecamp! Around the proposed new hotel-casino, everyone shows his openness to dialogue, but nobody is talking about. Attac-Fecamp and the Association for Ecology Region Fecamp (Écorefe) criticize the lack of transparency of the project and try to prevent it, as it stands. The town claims to have communicated a lot and now relies on court decisions to move forward. Emerald Finally, the casino operator tenant of the premises since 1999, believes that it is the town hall to play and conflict resolution to file their building permits.
The reason for this outburst of passions is to look on the waterfront, which is a small casino, built in 1860, flanked by a pool out of service. Behind, on the slope down from the cliff lies a municipal camping very popular for its views over the sea As an extension of the waterfront, the long white cliff fell into the sea. The casino, a bit outdated, that occupies the 112th place on the 180 French schools. Also, when in September 1999 the City Council sign an agreement to operate the site in favor of Emerald , the market is clear: the casino operator agrees to invest in rebuilding the casino, and add an upscale hotel and especially with the cost of work necessary to support the security of the cliff. In exchange for the surrender of the relevant land, the price of one euro.
Écorefe outcry to the association, for which land would be sold off: “This site, which is the most beautiful heritage of the city, could be a gold mine for the town instead of being sold for nothing,” ton Meynier Michel, president of the association. For him, “the site, which actually corresponds to the arrival of a geological fault very important, remains unstable and could be destabilized by the work.” It’s that time of the first appeal before the Administrative Court in February 2003 to challenge the conditions of sale. Therefore, the mayor stops by itself the sales process, before returning to the charge in June 2004. Same reaction on the part of Écorefe, namely a second appeal before the Administrative Court to prevent the sale of public lands in the pool and casino. With the added bonus, the launch of a petition signed by nearly 500 Fécampois. The socialist mayor of the city, Patrick Jane, believes that “the way it was written, everybody [could] the sign.”
This time, no turning back of the hall, Patrick Jane is determined to go through with the procedure. “It’s been a year since we try to talk without results, including through public meetings. Now, we want to go to court. So yes, we are in a stalemate, but everyone will assume his responsibilities … Me, I protect the interests of the city. The lack of dialogue, that’s the main complaint of Attac-Fecamp against the municipality. In a letter to the tribunal, the association argues that the mayor “has never felt obliged to inform the public of the existence of a proposed hotel-casino by summer 2003.” Admittedly, the first local magistrate has proposed setting up a technical committee with, among other experts, chosen by both architects and Écorefe Attac. “A committee of specialists who have just served to mask even the project to the people,” says Jacques Lelièvre, co-chair of Attac-Fecamp. Project, there would in fact only “draft” as Patrick Jane, whose City Council has already “rejected three versions in six years, guaranteeing its independence vis-à-vis the group Emerald . ” Formerly owned by Credit Lyonnais, now in the hands of Norman construction group Le Foll, Emerald operates eight casinos in France, mainly in the north and east. According to the municipality, any present or future contract is not binding Le Foll, specializing in the construction of roads in the town of Fecamp.
Eric Lecoquierre, CEO of Emerald , unconvincingly says he wants to make the new hotel-casino “no economic interests in order to fulfill [its] obligations and help the region.” The system should still get the annual turnover of EUR 3.7 million to a range between 12 and 20 million euros. The share paid to the city, now close to one million euros, on a municipal budget of 33 million euros, should evolve in the same proportions, not including eighty hires planned to turn the new building. “A nine-story monster that climbs the cliff,” Michel Meynier, referring to the hotel part of the whole, the new casino should not exceed four floors of other buildings on the seafront
A man who was playing slot machines casino Monday to Saint-Nectaire (Puy de Dome) ended up being put under threat of a gun, the 7,400 euros contained in the fund before taking flight , said on Tuesday from the facility director. The casino customer, aged thirty years, spent part of the afternoon and evening in the hotel. “He played the slot machines, left then returned, without attracting attention,” he told AFP the casino manager, George Hamonet. Around midnight, he asked to see the head of the facility, explaining that he was a former policeman, now a safety officer, and he sought a job, the source said. “He then kept the conversation near the cash slot machines, waiting for the right moment, without a customer nearby, pulled a revolver from his pocket and told the cashier: + you give me the credit, ‘” Mr. Hamonet has detailed. The robber took 7,400 euros and calmly left the scene. “Customers are not realized anything,” said casino manager in the group Partouche . Tuesday morning, a man matching the description of the robber threatened the casino a motorist with a gun and fled in his car at Avèze, forty kilometers from Saint-Nectaire, officials said a judicial source . The police was investigating.
Next year will decisive for thermal city. The baths will come under the control of the town and the casino could open its doors in a temporary place.
“We recorded a 60% increase in attendance at the tourist office for the month of July. It is an explosion, “says Colin Pascale, Director of the Office of Tourism Bourbonne-les-Bains. Should we see this boom in tourism one of the first consequences of the construction of future casino? Certainly since the spa after a long languished and even economic setbacks suffered through deaths of enterprises, is now moving into high gear. The work of the casino are going well. The major work is underway. Within weeks, the mayor, André Noirot, sign transfer state property to the town who will buy the spa. Group Valvital will loaded management. “The establishment paid a fee of about € 760 000 to the state. It is now all that will go into the coffers of the town. I recalls that Product tax Bourbonnais totaled nearly one million euros “emphasizes André Noirot.
Tax revenue doubled
Certainly will Bourbonne debt to pay for this acquisition. The plan funding over a decade has provided refunds to the tune of € 609 000. “That gives us leeway where attendance baths were to fall,” said the mayor. Currently Bourbonne les Bains welcomes nearly 12,300 curists annually which puts seventh spas France. The opening of the casino planned for 2006 will also bring his tribe to municipal finances. Between 7 and 10% of gross gaming receipts will be donated to the town. “Our most pessimistic forecasts give us € 381 000 per year. So the casino and the spa will help double the tax revenue of Bourbonnais, welcomed the mayor. “It can change everything for the common ‘,” he clarified.
This “fee” could be seen much earlier. Indeed, the casino has requested a temporary opening in the early and Clocheton room. The Committee must decide races and games in November. But the company operating the casino hopes to open in April 2005. This will help start the probationary year the casino where the law allows only ball games during the first year of operation.
“We could save time in the probationary year and allow the casino to open directly with slot machines,” says Andre Noirot. And above all players wait to confront the famous “bandits”.
Lower subsidies
If 2005 is the year of change, it will be difficult in terms of tourism promotion. Tourist Office will see its promotion budget amputee notably from attributed by spa.
The tripartite agreement between the General Council, the Region and the town will be revised downwards. “We’ll be obliged goodbye our program animation and promotion will reduced 2005″ Announces mayor. The latter noted that some actions were conducted in duplicate. Thus, the company will present the spa lounge has the unique national (Relaxation) spas in Paris.
“We will be represented by the baths, the tourist does not need to go,” says Andre Noirot. The casino, in its contract, is obliged to promote the city through its activity. It is obvious that a product has appeal as a casino can only be beneficial.
The tourist office will have to evolve with the two new structures. And especially the animations proposed to be rejuvenated to attract a clientele that is sure, too, to tend to younger populations.
Bourbon-les-Bains will initiate a turn, overdue since 1993. The effects are beginning to be felt. “Notaries are telling me that homes are selling easily now,” said the mayor. The commercial sector could follow this trend.
The tide is starting to smile Bourbonne-les-Bains has in hand a game that many would like.
The town of Knokke-Heist Belgium organizes a competition to design a new casino from the old, built in the late 20s. The municipality is looking for a project to become the symbol of the city.
Town of 34,000 inhabitants ‘stuck’ between Bruges and the Dutch border, the town of Knokke-Heist in Belgium has a large casino built in 1929, decorated with frescoes by Magritte as to be considered a “cultural temple”. However, the city may not dispose of as it wishes.
Also, the City Council has launched an international competition to create from the existing complex of a new casino. The council is seeking a bold vision to become, once completed, a new symbol for Knokke-Heist and its immediate region for the next hundred years.
Organised in two stages, the deadline for contest entries has been set for November 15, 2004.
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