Again and again...

• Berck: the courts cancel AGAIN the City procedure to entrust the operation of the casino to the Partouche group... The interim relief judge of the administrative court of Lille has annulled, for the third time... the municipality "imposed" on the candidates to be "owners" of the premises where they planned to operate their casino "from the tender stage"

• Opposite, the Grand Casino de Dinant, in Belgium.

• Berck in Pas-de-Calais

Some news from the Partouche casinos

• The casino of Juan-les-Pins

• La Grande-Motte Casino, more recent: Sentenced to prison for cheating at the La Grande-Motte Casino, part of the Partouche group. One of the cheaters discreetly slips an iron rod under the [electronic] roulette wheel, which deflects the ball so that it lands on one of the numbers close to 0. The accomplices then bet on neighboring numbers, which are likely to be winning numbers.

To end with a song: The new Belgian hit: "Recidivism, a French flourish in 3 steps" or "The Stolen Market"

• The Stolen Market
  voir Le_marché_volé.pdf

• music 

It's the first step in the multi-stage judicial dance that counts...

• Annulment of a building permit in Caen - The administrative court of Caen cancels the building permit for the Palais Fontette. The former courthouse was to house a luxury hotel and a convention center in the city center... the lack of guarantees governing the transformation of a building listed as a historic monument... the municipality is already considering an appeal... (francebleu)

• The Palais Fontette... after purchasing the building from the State and the Calvados Departmental Council, the City of Caen officially became the owner of the Palais Fontette on November 20th. 2018

An environmental agreement...

• Water in La Clusaz - Illegal use Water in La Clusaz: the municipality will pay a €130,000 fine... The municipality of La Clusaz, prosecuted for illegally supplying a reservoir used for artificial snow production, has agreed to pay €130,000 as part of a settlement with the courts, the Annecy prosecutor's office announced Friday... thanks to a "legal agreement of environmental public interest (CJIPE)" (francebleu)

And for the future? Phew, La Clusaz has also "committed to stopping the disputed water withdrawal."

And if, by some chance, it doesn't honor its commitments? The municipality doesn't care; the taxpayer pays.

• The CJIPE with other examples, but also the CIJP which concerns financial crimes committed by Bolloré and LVMH, among others, a godsend for some companies.

• La Clusaz in Haute-Savoie and its 1,663 Cluses and Clusesses, excluding tourists, and which has had its first artificial snow installation for over thirty years. modal=index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3626:lactualite-de-la-bignole-21-aout-2024&catid=106:08-infos-aout-2024-fr&Itemid=4448#la-clusaz-eau-pompee |label=The white powder of Clusaz}{/up modal}. The first artificial snow crystal was created by the Japanese physicist Ukichiro Nakaya (中谷 宇吉) in 1936, and La Clusaz is not holding back, it's a story that drags on... so the commitments of the Municipality...

• And in 2030, cross-country skiing, an Olympic sport. (olympic.com)

A   Occitan farandole...

• Arcachon, its basin and its black water - "Untreated excrement went directly into "The ocean": The discharge of wastewater into the Arcachon basin is no longer authorized, according to the Bordeaux administrative court. The prefectural decrees, issued on February 28th and authorizing discharges in the event of exceptional rainfall, constitute a sort of "right to pollute"... Norovirus pollution of the water led to a ban on the sale of oysters for three weeks. Several hundred consumers were sickened... (france3)

• The city of Arcachon with its poop, its clerk, the misfortunes of "Ponpon" due to an undemocratic municipal decree, its high cost of living...

• The judgment of "Ponpon"

Tricolor Variation

• Another Court Decision surprising - "Judicial review cannot block the exercise of an elective mandate": the courts authorize Mayor Alain Ferrand to return to Le Barcarès. The Court of Cassation, which ["ensures that the interpretation of the law is the same for everyone" editor's note] overturned the decision of the Aix-en-Provence Court of Appeal which limited his movements and exchanges within his commune. He remains under investigation for corruption and favoritism... judicial review cannot "prevent the exercise of an elective mandate." (france3)

• Le Barcarès in the Pyrénées-Orientales and its emblem, a hologram that becomes real again

• The judgment of the Court of Cassation of May 20 2025, Appeal No. 25-81.812

• The walls of Écrouves Prison - Hundreds of graffiti dating from the 1920s unearthed at the Écrouves detention center... 800 primarily Polish first and last names, 80 cities, 60 dates, and around a hundred religious, erotic, floral, and portrait illustrations... these graffiti were masked by five successive layers... (francebleu)

• Ecrouves in Meurthe-et-Moselle

• There is also the destruction of the Saint-Lazare prison, and the transcription of certain inscriptions on its walls to be discovered