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How the Gaming Squad Hunts Down Cheat Kings

2022-09-30T16:48:42.304Z


INVESTIGATION - Training in a clandestine gambling circle in the basements of the Ministry of the Interior, the "incorruptibles" of the Central Races and Games Service fight against cheating in casinos, racetracks and even cockfights .


It's a secret place, hidden out of sight in the basement of Place Beauvau.

The public, who does not suspect its existence, will never be able to set foot there.

Accessible by a hidden entrance that leads to a flight of spiral steps, you have to lower your head to enter.

Nestled behind a thick double-locked door, the place has three rooms, measuring at most forty square meters.

Between its vaulted stone walls riddled with white, there reigns an outdated atmosphere, where a fever that only wants to rise and a feeling of prohibition that makes you dizzy mingle.

In the dim light of a dozen light bulbs topped with kitsch lampshades, which look like they have come straight out of a cardboard saloon at the Warner studios, a battery of slot machines and "bingos electronics lie on worn carpets.

Wisely aligned, the relics wait to click for the umpteenth time.

In majesty, in the middle, throne...

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Source: lefigaro

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