In Port La Nouvelle, the casino officially opens its doors on Saturday


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However, it will take a year to attend the commissioning of the machines. The state imposes a period of one year probationary period prior to installation. Meanwhile, fans of the ball, first served.

The schedule was tight, but it will be held. It must be said that this is 9 years that the project is in the pipeline along a folder, the first tender was submitted by the group Partouche in 1996, because it took three requests to complete. “There was a problem as land, buildings being chosen on the coastal area, but we just get this title for 18 years” said Daniel Reyna, the CEO of the casino “The Phoebus” to gruissan nouvellois project manager.

Nine years of waiting. In less than a month, the work enable a first opening of what will be the future casino in Port-la-Nouvelle.

It will open next Saturday, but for now the point of slot machines. It was not until the prescribed period of probationary year set by the state for the group Partouche to install it, normally by 2006. The casino will be managed locally by Cyril Griffet. Meanwhile, Reserve perform fully its leadership role of the station with the disco of course, but also evening shows and tea dances.

First the ball. For now, place the ball and from the 3 March, part restaurant and pub cafe concert will be open daily from 9:45 p.m. to 5 am on weekdays and 3am on Fridays, Saturdays and eve of public holidays.

But much more work remains to be done by this summer, especially outside, with the rehabilitation of the facades, the construction of the terrace and openings, and finally the roof.

The budget is around 2million euros. The architect Ivan Tognella who designed the project inspired by the marine world in a spirit of “bathing and refined.” Casino Port La Nouvelle, since that is how he called, simpleet remain popular in the spirit of the station.

Over time, it should be build other infrastructure, hotel maybe, but Daniel thinks Reyné first to a private beach. The situation on the pier is ideal for providing that little extra to its customers.

Attracting cruise. If it was not until the arrival of slot machines (first fifty) to allow the casino to run at full speed, its presence should not fail to drain customers eagerly awaited on the docks, the cruise lines. A ship of a hundred passengers crossing the Mediterranean is expected for the month of May.

Good news for the town and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry who would like to make Port-la-Nouvelle, the only port in the department worthy of hosting them, a destination of choice.

In the Salon of the cruise in Miami that contacts were established to attract Americans still very concerned by the proximity of Carcassonne and the Canal du Midi, the two World Heritage Sites by UNESCO. The presence of a casino, even if these floating palaces are often already filled, will undoubtedly be a plus.


Isaac Dahan calls on government to save the ex-France


The businessman Isaac Dahan, who launched the idea last September to anchor the liner Norway (ex France) Honfleur (Calvados), on Friday urged the authorities to confirm their support to prevent the vessel is delivered to the scrap dealers.

Isaac Dahan confirmed to AFP the information given to West France by a representative of the shipowner, that Norwegian Cruise Lines (NCL, a subsidiary of Star Cruises) has delivered the demolition on Monday if no buyer appears by then.

“The seller told me that yesterday (Thursday), but I had already said forty times before,” he tempers, however.

Maintenance of the ship, which is relegated to the German port of Bremerhaven from a boiler explosion that killed eight sailors in 2003, costing $ 500,000 (about 385,000 euros) per month.

The owner wants to find a buyer quickly and regularly refers to the exceptional course of steel, driven by Chinese demand, which allows him to hope to get the asking price – 20 million – from scrap metal.

Isaac Dahan said he continues to seek an operator after the withdrawal Tuesday of leisure property group Pierre et Vacances and calls for a mobilization of all to ensure that the pages are turned permanently.

“I turn to the government, local and regional associations and movements, left to right and left, asking them to support his return,” he wrote in a statement.

Association for the ex-France, based in Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique) where the ship was built, immediately announced his intention to ask the Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin to intervene with the NCL for “delay”.

But Isaac Dahan would like especially that the commitment made last October 7 by the State, public authorities of Lower Normandy and the Autonomous Port of Rouen (Seine-Maritime) to accompany the project to be translated into facts.

The businessman says his project amounts to 45 million euros, a sum “not relevant” with 200 million raised by Pierre & Vacances to transform the ship into the tourist complex.

“My project is a renovation and reconstruction of the ship not to leave him his whole character of a historic monument,” he writes.

He explained that if his project succeeds, the ship moored at the foot would be the bridge of Normandy and that would be located on board including 300 cabins, six restaurants, two bars, a snack, a glacier, casino, cinema, theater, a fitness center and thirty shops.

It ensures that its operation, which also include the organization of fairs and exhibitions would create “500 to 600 jobs.

Commissioned in 1961, France was assigned to transatlantic crossings between Le Havre and New York before being decommissioned in 1974 and sold in 1979 at the NCL, which was converted into cruise ship under the name of Norway.

It was, with its 313 meters, the longest liner in the world for over 40 years, until the commissioning of the Queen Mary 2 in 2003.


Bourbon-Lancy: The casino creates the event in France today.


This is the day! Casino de Bourbon-Lancy opens at 20h accurate tonight its doors in a single room in France who meet in a single location games “traditional” (such as slot machines), and games called “noble (such as roulette and blackjack).

Thus, for the first time in France, thanks to a test given by the Ministry of Interior for a year, a casino will allow the French to finally free access to these games, previously reserved for an elite in a under strict and cloisonne which only a clientele of connoisseurs could access.

Tens of thousands of French would then rush in the coming months at the casino of Bourbon-Lancy to see these legendary games that were previously observed through the prism of American film “Ocean’s Eleven” (with George Clooney and Brad Pitt ) or “Casino” (with Robert de Niro and Sharon Stone) and others.

Last year, French casinos have registered 64 million admissions slots. But only in Bourbon-Lancy that these customers will, tonight, to go from dream to reality by watching these games “noble” around them for years without seeing them, and not daring to enter a world that they were forbidden.


Jackpot at Cannes: 150 slot machines for the Casino Barrière Les Princes


The “jackpot” for the Casino Barrière Les Princes at the Noga Hilton in Cannes: it has just been awarded a license to operate 150 slot machines. It is, for France, the largest authorization has been given to a casino with barely a year old. Opened in March 2004 at the Grand Casino Riviera which had been closed because of business “Mouillot,” the former mayor of Cannes, the Casino Barrière Les Princes has already established itself as a leading casino games table (in this category, was ranked second in 2004). The latest generation of MAS (they were presented at the trade show in London in January) will be installed in a new room. They should boost the turnover of the third casino in Cannes and strengthen the position of Cannes as a leading European cities of the games.


Turning the Casino Divonne-les-Bains (Ain): 12 to 15,000 euros stolen


Three masked and armed thieves robbed the casino in Divonne-les-Bains (Ain) in the night from Saturday to Sunday and took 12 to 15,000 euros, before fleeing to Switzerland, officials said Sunday at the gendarmerie and the casino management. The three robbers stormed to 01:00 am in the casino where the activity was in full swing. Armed with a pistol and a .22 LR, they robbed several successive cases of the establishment, without any shot being fired, told AFP Alain Mansion, CEO of the casino (group Didot-Bottin). They then fled on board a large displacement where an accomplice, has said, adding that the car was found several hours later, abandoned in Switzerland. Research brigade gendarmerie Lyon was investigating.


Georges Tranchant shows its claws


Heated exchange of letters between the casino operator and the owner of the Galaxy in Amnéville. This is a pre-heating.

METZ. – In the great game of war between Jean Kiffer and Georges Tranchant , the stepdaughter of the mayor of Amnéville just made ??a blow to the casino sector. This cash and reply. Last Thursday, Georges Tranchant denounced the wages earned by the CEO and Executive Director of Galaxy – in this case the step-son and stepdaughter of John Kiffer – Eric and Carole Revel.

The couple initially denounced the “real smear campaign” by challenging the wages paid and explaining the deficit of the mixed enterprise manager by the cons of the structure-performance schedules Congress Center and the exhibition Dinosaurs and by the “unfair” competition from the Arena of Metz, entrusted by the city through grants to the company nevertheless Vega, a subsidiary of Vivendi.

In a second step, Carole Revel wrote to Georges Tranchant “as wife and mother, without making his letter public. The boss of the Galaxy recalled that her husband had suffered several heart alerts and criticized the casino operator, “in response to your statements on Friday, went around a new alert. Also, I want to tell you that I will not hesitate to put you personally at risk if you persist in your attacks against him carry insidious. ”

Remember me where …

This post has boosted Georges Tranchant . The casino operator who still refuses to discuss the casino Amnéville whose mayor wants to withdraw the concession, made the correspondence public Carole Revel. Similarly, he replied: “Dear Carol … The entry in friendly is misleading because Georges Tranchant describes the letter as “abhorrent and unacceptable. I will be responsible for accidents health of your husband Eric Revel and if unfortunately he had to make a new heart attack, you would not hesitate to put myself personally involved … I must be dreaming! ”

But the head of the empire Tranchant not dreaming, and he cons-attack on the “lifestyle” of its enemies now denouncing including champagne spend 3,700 euros July 29, 2002 at VIP Room in a trendy club Saint Tropez.

Georges Tranchant even beg Carole Revel does not “require by law to establish the medical profession the real reasons for his last hospitalization.

For now, the mayor referred Amnéville in turn seems to make the round back, no doubt preparing a reply. And Georges Tranchant ultimately Carole Revel warns: “There is always a moment in life when he must face the consequences of his actions … including yours. “


Groupe Partouche: slight decline of sales in Q1.


(Reuters) – The title Group Partouche is slightly down -0.40% to 16.10 E after the announcement of its turnover for the 1st quarter. The Group had in effect on the 1st quarter 2004/2005 a turnover of 117.5 million euros, down -2.5% compared to 1st quarter 2003/2004 (120.6 million euros ). The first quarter of 2003/2004 but included the sale of two hotels for 2.6 million euros.

Revenues earned on the proceeds of the games is down -1.30% (184 Mls Mls E 186.5 E cons) mainly in the southern institutions of France, but other activities of the Group (Hotels) are increasing. The French casino market is obviously no longer able to ensure double-digit growth for the various stakeholders. This situation should be conducive to the further consolidation trend began with the union of Group Lucien Barriere and Accor Casinos.

Speculation about a possible evolution of the round table group Partouche is still valid. After the refusal of the Financial Partouche , who controls 70.6% of the share capital of Groupe Partouche , proposals funds Permira and Cinven further discussions could be conducted with new suitor.


Switzerland: The Casino du Jura robbers in court


Porrentruy (AP) The trial of the Casino du Jura robbers opened Monday morning at the Criminal Court of Porrentruy (JU). Eight defendants, suspected of having taken part in the assault, armed robbery, during which the dealer’s establishment had been seriously wounded in late November 2002 to Courrendlin, respond to robbery in court Jura.

The band, composed of a majority of citizens of the former Yugoslavia, had violently assaulted the dealer at the casino’s closure November 28, 2002, the beating and shooting her in the foot. The thugs had then forced open the safe, before handcuffing him and flee with their booty, which amounted to 170,000 francs.

Actively sought by the police, two of the principal authors of the robbery were arrested on New Year’s Day. The searches were subsequently allowed to seize the weapon – a magnum revolver – with whom the dealer has been seriously injured, as well as ammunition, a hand grenade, several weapons and dummy alarm, gas masks , a pair of handcuffs, hoods, gloves and various objects such as crowbars.


Amnéville: I smell the powder


Mayor of the spa, the casino operator and Jean Kiffer Georges Tranchant resumed hostilities. A war without thank you that will end in death. But who?

The conflict between Kiffer and Edge is not new. It goes back to the ’90s when two former members RPR (then) sat on the same benches of the Assembly. A period of great loves was succeeded by the most ferocious hate about big bucks. Of the 270 sub-armed bandits of the casino that the two men did not share the same ratio.

Sixth casino in France with gross proceeds of games (GGR) of € 56.328 million, the casino provides a wealth of Amnéville comfortable budget of the municipality (€ 7 million). It holds 74% shares of the company (SEM). Casino City conceded the group Tranchant (23 gambling establishments) it employs 150 employees. It shall contribute to the development of tourism in the city as it requires the specification. The casino holds 5% stake in the SEM Galaxy.

After several years of truce, the belligerents have thus taken up arms. Beginning in March 2005, Georges Tranchant has invited the City Council Amnéville before holding a press conference during which he denounced the mismanagement of the Galaxy.

In the collimator, the son-in-Kiffer, Eric Revel and his wife who are both the only members of the Executive Board of SEM Galaxy and employees of the structure. Tranchant based on a preliminary report of the Chamber of Accounts Epinal. It evokes a “hole” of € 768,000. He also talks about lifestyle expensive CEO (Revel) and CEO (his wife) whose earnings amount to € 238,000 in 2003 and 167,000 € in 2004. Plus costs equally exorbitant.

Edged further announced it would pay the € 750,000 due under the tourism promotion. “I want his skin and I get it,” says the casino sector. Casus belli.

The response of tit for tat was quick. Kiffer that never in the half-measure, immediately filed a criminal complaint for “death threat” to the Paris Court. Rejecting all the charges Tranchant Mayor Amnéville decided to “turn”. How? Unilaterally revoking the casino operator before the expiry of the concession which links the town to the group until December 31, 2005.

At a press conference Monday, March 14, Kiffer has publicly announced that the town of Amneville which holds 74% stake in SEM in the casino would give 24.9% to SA Spielbank German whose main shareholder is the Saarland. “A partnership agreement will ensure that the dividends are reinvested on the casino site,” says the mayor. The signature in the presence of a German Minister to intervene on March 21.

These provisions are they legal? “The solution will not pass Kiffer” predicted Edge threatening to initiate legal action and provides a strike by staff. By 1995, the casino had been closed for several weeks. An “amicable settlement” had been found in the office of Prefect of the time but it was never executed.

Shortly before his press conference Monday, March 14, the mayor of Amnéville was summoned into the office of judge messin Thierry Montfort. The latter was indicted for “unlawful taking of interest” in the case of the company SFM Coco Aubertin. Furious, Kiffer puts into question the impartiality of judges Metz.

In short, it heats strong. There will be deaths, you said …


Groupe Partouche: 0.45% stake changing hands in two blocks


The record group Partouche is down over 1% below 16 Euros, while the two applications are reported consistent about 98,000 titles each recorded in the order book, both evaluated at about 1.6 million euros. Two blocks thus represent 0.45% of total capital of the group of casinos in a little over 200,000 parts treated in total. The group that started in 2005 smoothly, left the market a little skeptical or cautious for the remainder of the adventure.

The first quarter of this fiscal year is also left without relief on a stable activity over the period last year. Main factors put forward by management on the sidelines of the results, the decrease of the net proceeds of games including institutions of southern France, and the recovery of other related activities including the hotel sector.