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Demanding Penalization in France

The French market is getting pretty tense these days as French based online casinos and gambling groups are aggressively protecting the last few months that they have a legal right to monopolize the French gaming market. The French government has long announced plans to legalize foreign online casino sites for entry into the potentially lucrative French market. In fact, France has to end its gambling monopoly to better comply with EU policies and practices related to the free trade of goods and services. A key issue over the past several months though is the time frame – the French government has really stalled lately in its implementation of these gambling regulations that are “in development” and in the mean time, the French monopolies are still quite active and protecting their closed market for as long as possible.

Several French online casinos and gaming groups are now demanding that the French authorities take the names of all of the gambling groups that are currently jumping the gun and already taking French gamblers. Even further though, French casino companies took the whole situation to a new level with demands that any company caught offering online gambling services to French citizens before the regulations fully take effect should be banned from the market for as long as two years as punishment. It seems a bit juvenile that the French companies are so aggressively pursuing this option considering full licensing for foreign sites is just months away at this point.

All told, there are 14 online casinos that French gaming companies are accusing of prematurely entering the market and asking that the French courts specifically penalize with a licensing ban. There is no telling if the French courts will follow through with this line of punishment…it seems as though the French judicial system has a bit more to worry about then a dozen or so gaming sites that are nearly legalized but jumped the gun a bit.