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A Nantais denounces the side effects of Requip, treatment against the disease Parkinson.Ruiné the game, he asks € 450 000 to a global drug giant. Minutes of February 1.
“Nobody has ever dared to tackle one of the largest laboratories in the world,” said Antoine Béguin, Angevin lawyer. The high court judge in Nantes, in civil, February 1, the first folder on the French side effects of treatment of Parkinson’s disease. The GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) will find himself assigned to “a defective product.” And the neurologist who prescribed the Nantes for “breach of his duty to inform”.
He squanders his money
The complainant Nantes, aged 52, was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2003. Her doctor says a drug marketed by GSK, the Requip. It stimulates production in the brain of dopamine, a neurotransmitter that is lacking in Parkinson’s disease.
“From March 2003 to September 2005, my client will develop serious behavioral and personality will change. He squandered the savings of the household in Internet gambling (casino or PMU), stealing to finance his bets, leading his family to “economic ruin”. It will also be up to dress, subject to hypersexuality, compulsive search for sexual pleasure. “These problems will cease after discontinuation of treatment. ”
For lawyers and Gerard Marot Antoine Béguin, there is no doubt that the drug is involved. “Ten practitioners including four medical experts concluded that the treatment was well behind disorders reported. “Problem, before 2006, nothing on the record of the drug warned the patient. The lawyers claim € 450 000 for damages and interest.
A case has been argued in the U.S. by a patient Mirapex, a drug similar. The American received $ 8.2 million. In July 2009, the French Food Safety Agency (AFSSAPS) warned healthcare professionals about the dangers of this treatment. She mentions “a hundred cases of compulsive disorders – compulsive gambling, repetitive behavior without a goal, increased libido and hypersexuality – have been reported in patients treated with one or more of these dopaminergic drugs.”
After this trial, other cases could be known. For its part, the laboratory GSK refuses to communicate “before announcing the decision.”
“There is no chance in life, there is only Thurs”
Thierry Sauvanet, new owner of the casino of Saint-Nectaire never imagined, a year ago, such a challenge to 50 years. In recent days, he is the new owner of SAS which operates the casino in Saint-Nectaire and thus takes almost 40 years later succeeded his father, who had operated the facility from 1964 to 1970.
Beyond the nod family, Thierry Sauvanet and Zed, his girlfriend, want to re-brand the casino in great difficulty for several years.
“The secret of success is linked to games and entertainment, says the new owner. After being closed for a year and a half, we reopen the restaurant on Friday. On 14 February we celebrate Valentine’s Day with an animated Cuban. In the specification that connects us with the town, we also entered the cabaret, theater, dancing teas. During the summer we will also participate in the lively town with outdoor activities. In short, we must restore a spirit casino spirit festival at this place. ”
As director of casino Royat, Châtel-Guyon, Juan-les-Pins (Alpes-Maritimes) and until 31 December of Évaux-les-Bains (Creuse), all belonging to the group Partouche , Thierry is the Sauvanet head of an establishment with 28 employees, 50 slot machines, table games, a concert hall, a lounge bar and restaurant.
The group Partouche , which disengages the casino with low profitability, won the public service delegation launched by the joint owner of the building before selling its shares to Thierry Sauvanet. The latter is now awaiting the renewal of its license to operate games scheduled for next March. The opening of a poker table has also been requested. As the result, without prejudice, Sauvanet Thierry explains that “we made sure to meet the expectations of the municipality and police games, so we can not but be optimistic.”
HONG KONG – Macau casino king Stanley Ho, is at the center of a violent family dispute: his 17 children from four beds argue his fortune and his lawyer accused of wanting to rob several billionaire 89 years.
Magnate to life fantastic complaint filed before the High Court of Hong Kong, to prevent certain relatives to claim an inheritance of his empire estimated at 3.1 billion dollars and whose centerpiece is holding LSU.
A few hours earlier on Wednesday, sitting in a wheelchair and properly framed by members of his family, he had made a statement before television cameras.
“I love my family. We will never launch legal action against each other. The case was settled,” had secured a weak voice billionaire.
The complaint, seen by AFP, which seems to bear the signature of Stanley Ho, has several relatives and three of his children, Pansy and Lawrence Ho, head of rival concessions in Macau.
She says the group’s shareholding structure was changed from “inappropriately and / or illegal.”
On Thursday, the lawyer of Stanley Ho, Gordon Oldham, assured that the old man had been forced by her family to a parody of reconciliation on live television.
“I asked for an explanation” and “He said he felt pushed by her family to read these statements. He was not at all happy,” said the lawyer for Cable News.
Stanley Ho had 17 children by four wives, whom he calls his wives. According to Gordon Oldham, it has actually been married to his first wife, died in 2004.
The second would have been married before the polygamy law be amended in Hong Kong in the early 70s.
The family dispute erupted when the children first and fourth joint had the impression of being plundered for the benefit of those partners two and three.
“My father always said that he was a just, fair and honest. I can not believe he would leave the family of my mother with nothing,” he said Wednesday in a statement Angela Ho , after the first bed.
She says her mother’s relations in Macau were of paramount importance for the proper development of his father’s business.
Stanley Ho made his fortune by securing a monopoly on casino operations in Macau from 1962 until 2002, when the market was opened to competition.
Suspected to leave the triads operate on his premises, he has always denied and denied being in cahoots with the Mafia in Macao.
The former Portuguese colony returned to China in 1999, is the only place in China where gambling is allowed. In 2010, institutions in Macao have posted a turnover of four times higher than those of Las Vegas.
LSU holding company currently owns 17 casinos and a few hotels in this area.
Nephew of one of the first Asian tycoons, Stanley Ho began his career by smuggling the Chinese border, during the Second World War.
After investing in casinos, he extended his empire in the transport and horse racing, becoming one of the richest men in Asia. It would also be the operator of the only casino in Pyongyang, the North Korean capital.
But his fortune has melted in recent times: Forbes magazine estimated at $ 3.1 billion (2.26 billion euros) fortune today of Stanley Ho, as against 9 billion dollars a few years ago.
PARIS – It’s the equivalent of 2.3 tons of gold or 120 Rolls-Royce Phantom 7: in 2010, the liberalization of gaming, the French daily bet a record $ 72.16 million in the lottery, casino, horse racing or behind their computer screens.
According to a survey by the AFP, the French daily expenses of the game increased in eight years from 47.5 to 72,160,000 euros.
The total set of the French amounted to 26.3 billion euros in 2010, according to figures provided by the three incumbents (French Games, PMU, casinos) and the Regulatory Authority Online Games (Arjel). A figure six times higher than that of the book market, up almost 22% compared to 2009 (21.6 billion).
French Games and the PMU, which had a monopoly on gambling until June 8, did not suffer from competition from new entrants, even showing an increase in their turnover: 10.551 billion of euros for the EOD (+5.5%) and 9.540 billion for the PMU (+2.6%).
In contrast, the 197 French casinos have continued to suffer, recording a further decline of gross gaming revenue (GGR, difference between gains and losses of players) from 2.1% to 2.29 billion euros.
As for the new operators of online games, they are rather long faces despite a total turnover of 5.1 billion euros. Lured by a market that some had as an Eldorado, they have invested heavily in advertising expenditures. According to a study released Thursday by the institute specializing Kantar Media, 22 of the 35 approved operators spent $ 194.4 million from? Euros in advertising between June 8 and December 31, 2010.
So, after reading their operating accounts, some operators are disillusioned. Nicolas Beraud, president of Everest Group BetClick (paris online poker and sports), that his group “losing money”. CEO of TF1 Nonce Paolini announced consider a takeover offer from its subsidiary in Paris Eurosportbet horse sports and the results are “unsatisfactory”.
According to a study released Thursday by Francis Merlin, industry expert, the record 2010 is 19% lower than forecast. Taxation, banning online lotteries, still under the monopoly of the JDF, the return rate to players (from wagers redistributed form of earnings, ie) lower than in some countries – and thus less attractive for bettors – explain his view, these negative results.
But with economic concerns of operators, specialists of the game preclude the risk of addiction.
It will take several months for the results of the first study on gambling in France. According to the French Observatory for Drugs and Drug Addiction (OFDT), the section on pathological gambling in the integrated health record from the National Institute of Prevention and Health Education (INPE) will be published at the end of the first semester.
As the Advisory Committee of games (CCJ), which oversees all gambling and gaming in France and under the law of 27 May 2010 on online games, it is still not created.
Matignon got a month ago the Constitutional Council does not have guardianship over the CCJ, a refusal “unacceptable” according to Senator François Trucy UMP, author of two reports on gambling and chance. Internet:
Saturday night, staff games went on strike against a redundancy plan.
The casino city of Biarritz lived Saturday a walkout. On the making at 20 hours, the staff sets have decided not to join their desktops around the tables of poker, blackjack and roulette English and French, while the festive scene the city in full closure of FIPA, knew a great crowd.
This sudden heating office is not the first of its kind. In October 2009, the same scenario had already happened. At the time, the staff delegates CFDT wanted to denounce the “ambient discontent”, the “degradation of working conditions” and bemoaned “a growing lack of social dialogue and direction of the business concern.”
Management arrested
Collective action Saturday was again the direction of the Municipal Casino. “It follows a decision to restructure the playroom by removing the French roulette table,” said Pierre-Yves Escorne, CFDT union delegate. “This decision has been announced to the general amazement at an exceptional works will result if confirmed, the establishment of a redundancy plan for three employees. ”
For the CFDT, the decision was “unacceptable and illogical.” “This is unacceptable because you can not talk of redundancies in a company that makes money, even if she earns less. We recognize the difficulties of the games industry in this time of crisis. But today, contraction force of staff and through the state aid, the casino in Biarritz paradoxically improved its gross operating margin. The latter rose from 2.6 to over 3 million. We believe that this decision will not help improve the situation. Other measures are preferable and are prepared to discuss them with management. ”
For staff, the disappearance of the French roulette which involves four employees is amazing, its turnover has increased from 2009 to 2010 of 133% from 130 000 to 300 000.
“The French like roulette. The number of players is not limited to roulette unlike English which involves two employees but is limited to seven players max. This table is the only one in the region and contributes to maintaining the prestige of this casino and resort, “said Pierre-Yves Escorne yet.
Hard this weekend to join the executive who moved from Saturday night to meet with staff representatives on Monday afternoon.
The CFDT said that in 18 months, the grant of the casino in Biarritz will end with the Barrier Group and will be renegotiated. The context is so particular.
The ship “Lydia the” symbol of the start of mass tourism on the coast of Roussillon, a casino is now closed because of the crisis. Mayor Barcarès, Joel Ferrand, now wants to make it a municipal building dedicated to art and tourism.
The ship “Lydia The” voluntarily silted in the extreme north of the northeast coast of Catalonia, in the municipal area of ??Barcarès, poised for a new assignment. The Danish ship motionless since 1967 has hosted various leisure activities, alternately or simultaneously discotheque, restaurant, concert venue and jet-set, and especially casino, including managed since 2000 by the group Partouche . According to the wish expressed Saturday by the UMP mayor of the commune, Joel Ferrand, the famous boat will this year be a redemption from the municipal group Partouche , who was forced its closure in 2009. The first effects of the crisis were in fact involved a serious decline in customers, which has added competition from similar activities, developed in recent years on the Internet. Under the responsibility of society Lydia Invest, subsidiary to 97% of the group Partouche , the casino hosted by the “ship of the sands” presented 5 million of losses from 2008 to 2009, after winning a downsizing. The new formula of Lydia, whose length of 90 meters opens the way for a major project, should receive a step in the “Maison des Arts” barcarésienne fun and a new space has a regional focus. The future of the ship, which will also contain a decentralized branch of the Office of Tourism of the county, will be voted on at the next council.
Lucien Cohen won the French one stop for the seventh season of the PokerStars European Poker Tour.
A French 46-year-old won the tournament Monday night at Deauville in the Calvados, the only French leg of the seventh season of the PokerStars European Poker Tour, featuring 4,276,800 euros. Lucien Cohen pocketed 880,000 euros. At the final table, he beat the Swede Martin Jacobson, 23, (2.56 million euros), Canadian Alex Wice, 22, (330,000 euros) and the French Claudepier Julien, 24 years (260,000 euros).
891 players (768 in 2010) from 46 countries (43) competed since early last week at the tournament in the casino of Deauville. Each had paid 5,300 euros for participating in this tournament in 2010 was won by Jake Cody, a Briton of 21, who had won 847,000 euros.
Loterie Romande fate winning the trial which he had opposed the Swiss casinos. The Federal Court (TF) clears the final operation of gaming machines “Tactilo” in restaurants, cafes and kiosks.
The verdict sounds like a new disallowance for the Federal gaming (CFMJ), who wanted to assimilate them into slot machines and casinos book only. In January 2010, the Federal Administrative Court (TAF) had already agreed with the Loterie Romande.
For years, it operates hundreds of gaming machines “Tactilo. They generate over 100 million francs of gross revenues per year. In 2006, the Federal Gaming Board decided to prohibit their operation out of the casinos.
Veto provoked an outcry. All townships had supported the appeal by the Loterie Romande and Swisslos, speaking for her. During the procedure, installing new equipment had been struck with a long moratorium. Four conditions
Ultimately, the Federal vindicates the Loterie Romande and endorses the verdict of the TAF. He found that games like “Tactilo” can be likened to slot machines because they meet the conditions of a lottery under the law.
For there to be a lottery, says the FT, there must be a setting, the intervention of chance, a chance to win not to mention the fourth feature, the distinctive element of planning.
To Mon Repos, the first three conditions are given and also the fourth, which is “the most difficult to assess.” In this case, federal judges admit that “the game is organized on the basis of maps, which proved identical to those of lotteries preprint on paper.”
The fact that the game “Tactilo” has differences compared to traditional lottery, having to support an electronic machine and not tickets issued on paper, does not equate to a slot machine, shows the TF.
Losers, the Swiss Casino will pay 18,000 francs in court costs and CFMJ ten thousand francs in costs to the Loterie Romande and the same amount Swisslos and the cantons.
The casino operator posted a net loss of 58 million euros in 2010, after a negative result of 16.7 million euros in 2009. In this context, Butler Capital Partners ensures a capital increase of EUR 30 million.
While his accounts sink into the red at the end of fiscal 2010, the group Partouche announced a restructuring of its debt. “As part of a global agreement to significantly strengthen its capital and finance its investment program, the group Partouche , on the one hand, concluded an agreement with its banking consortium to develop the credit union and on the other hand, has approached Financial Partouche (family holding Partouche ) and Butler Capital Partners to agree to launch a capital increase of 30 million euros, “the price of 2 euros per share, guaranteed by Butler Capital Partners (BCP), during which BCP will enter the capital of Groupe Partouche of 12.5% ??to 15.5% of the shares.
“But active minority partner, BCP and accompany a business plan aimed at developing a refocused group, reduced debt and investing in his heart craft: casinos and online gaming” said the statement released Wednesday evening, after market close. The transaction remains subject to approval from the Financial Markets Authority (AMF) and should be completed by next April.
This reorganization of debt and capital Partouche comes as the group announced a degradation of its accounts at the end of fiscal 2010. Net profit plunges into the red to the tune of 58 million euros last year, after a loss of 16.7 million euros in 2009. The 2010 accounts are penalized by 71.2 million euros of goodwill amortization. The gross gaming revenue, that is to say the bets lost by the players, fell 2.17%, to 701.8 million euros. The consolidated sales, which takes into account related activities such as restoration, stands at 478.1 million euros, up 5.5%.
The son of a judge in Las Vegas was arrested and charged in the gambling capital of the robbery last December of the Bellagio hotel-casino, where he was left with $ 1.5 million in chips, announced the Police on Thursday.
Anthony Carleo, aged 29, was arrested in a room of Bellagio hotel-casino made famous by the movie “Ocean’s Eleven by Steven Soderbergh.
The arrest was conducted by plainclothes officers, posing as prospective buyers of stolen chips, said the press spokesman for the Las Vegas Police, Ray Steiber.
The police have recovered in the hotel room the equivalent of $ 900,000 in chips and have located another part of the loot, valued at $ 300,000, he said.
Most chips had a face value of 25,000 dollars, which made them very difficult to sell.
The steering was quite a stir in December for his boldness and simplicity. The armed robber had arisen in the games room, pointed a dealer and stuffed the chips in his backpack before fleeing on a motorcycle.
After his arrest Wednesday, Carleo Anthony has been charged with including armed robbery and drug trafficking – after police found a large quantity of drugs in his room.
He is behind bars without possibility of bail.
His father, George Assad, Las Vegas judge has issued a brief statement saying that his family was “devastated and was heartbroken” after his arrest.